Season Ticket Day 2008

From previous posts, you know that we are football people.  Not just football people, Trojan football people.  The Clark family bleeds cardinal.  Every Saturday during the fall you will find us either in front of the TV or in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum watching USC play. We root for our team and whomever is beating UCLA.  You also know that we are very traditional and in this area, tradition is strong.

It starts with season ticket day.  That special day when we arrive home to see the overnight delivery package on our doorstep.  Slowly we rip open the envelope wondering what this years season tickets will look like and where we will be sitting.  This year, we will be sitting in section 14, row 86.  The tickets, well, they look like victory!

When game day arrives, we gear up in our cardinal and gold and load the car.  We head for breakfast at The Pantry in downtown Los Angeles where we dine in a sea of USC football fans.  After breakfast we head to campus, Heritage Hall to be specific.  For my UCLA friends, that's where we keep all of the National Championship and Heisman trophies.  Yes, we need a building for all of them.  We meet my friends, the Freemans at Heritage Hall 2 hours before game time for band warm up and the halftime show run through.  It is moving when the band echos throughout the campus halls as they begin to play "Fight On" and "Conquest."  As the band marches to the alumni quad, we head for the Colesium, the band will catch up and overtake us with the drum cadence pounding.  We follow the band off campus, kicking the lucky flagpole as we go and march ourselves to the stadium.  Once in our seats, we await the bands march to the field and the sound of the "Pre-game Sequence" followed by the "Star Spangled Banner."  The kick-off comes, game on!  When the game is won, we head to the student section for the final band concert, our car and dinner.

We love USC football.  Go Trojans and Fight On!