Thursday was my birthday, and wouldn't you know it, it just so happened to be the Beavers football opener as well! The game was against Eastern Washington, so you knew it wasn't going to be the greatest, but still any Beaver football game is totally worth it.

I actually went to work for a few hours in the morning on Thursday to get things all caught up. Since I'm now co-in charge of inventory with another person while Timeea is in Romania I have more of a set schedule. I did take Friday off though because the game started at 7pm and there was no way in hell I was booking it down I-5 at 1am.

Laurel drove, so we pimped out her car. Not quite as extravagant as last year's pimpage, but still tackalicious.

So we arrived in Corvallis around 3:30pm I think. We each brought some stuff to move into our apartments so we did that. After meeting up with some people we headed to the fairgrounds for free parking and a shuttle to the game.

We arrived with about 45 minutes to kill before the game, so it was just perfect. We all got seats around the fifty yardline, so it was a good place to watch the Beavers kick the Eagles ass on my birthday.

Excited for her first Beavers game!

A little over 38,000 orange clad Beavers filed in for the contest.

As for the game, it was a blowout. On the second play of the game the Eagles fumbled the ball. A few runs later, Yvenson Bernard was dancing in the endzone. I think they fumbled their next time too. Then Joe Newton snared a TD. Then Sabby picked the QB off and Ev hit paydirt once again. Needless to say, it was 42-7 at the half and the Beavers were completely dominating.

By the end the Beavers held EWU to 84 total yards and only 17 points. Those were allowed as such:

1) Punt Return TD late in the 4th quarter with scrubs playing and a crappy kick from the freshman punter.
2) Bad kickoff coverage allowed them to get into field goal range for 3.
3) Two personal fouls aided a drive where the Eagles actually looked decent and ran the ball for a TD.

The Beaver defense looked great but then again it was a 1-AA team, and not a very good one at that. Special teams were shaky at best... Serna missed a field goal and the new punter Loomis looked awful, not to mention the crappy kick coverage. Oh where oh where is Keller Christensen when you need him?

(From left) Stephen, Phil, and Meg enjoying the ass kicking by the Beavers. Arman is right above Meg's head and then Brian is right in front of him.

Oh, and there was a game, here is a picture of it!

Final score.

So the Beavers let up in the second half to be all classy and not be poor sports. This gave a lot of the young guys a chance to play and it was fun to see them in there because they will be the ones eventually starting.

After the game we met up with some other people and just hung out for a while, ordering pizza because we were so hungry. The night ended up watching the USA lose to Greece in the FIBA World Championships, so woot. That's why I dislike the NBA, the style of play is not true basketball. Even with all these "All-Stars" they can't beat a group of players playing fundamentally as a team. Thus why I like college basketball five million times better (aside from the Blazers of course).

All in all a good birthday. We crashed in Corvallis and headed back on Friday.

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