UTAH WINS FOOTBALL GAME

We are guests in a box at University of Utah football games and it is always a blast. You go there early and they serve food which is pretty good. You meet all sorts of friends and church leaders who come to the President's Box next door. We ran into Elder Nelson, Scott, Ballard and Zwick last evening. We chatted about old times in Germany with Elder Zwick. Relatives are there and it is just a great event.

And oh yes, there is a game too! This time they played TCU. This game was advertised as a Blackout. I think Underarmour company supplied new uniforms to the team and they were black with red stripes. Everyone wore black of course except for me who had not heard about the "blackout". It was cold so I came with my Austrian jacket, hat and Loden cape (Wetterflecke) that German hunters wear. Well at least I was different but did not blend in.

When you looked at the crowd from the box, it was like watching a huge nest of black ants. Even the cheerleaders wore black. Usually the crowd is red which has been the traditional color of Utah's teams since the days my Dad played football for the U (82 years ago). By the way, my Dad, your grandfather, was the first member of the family to play college football and was on the UofU team that won their first conference championship. There used to be a football in the Union building on display with my Dad's name on it. Dad always wore his red letter sweater when working on the farm in the cold. Dad was a tight end and a very fast sprinter.

Well the game was closely fought with the score TCU 10 and Utah 6 right up to the last two minutes of the game.

We did what we always do and decided to leave two minutes early to beat the huge traffic jam (Stau) As we left, there was a roar as TCU missed a field goal. We turned on the car radio to hear Utah win the game in the last two minutes. Paul F. thinks it is sacrilegious to leave a football game early and we learned our lesson.

Now on for BYU.

Alles Liebe, Opa