Numb...

It's now approaching 130 sunday morning

If we made a MasterCard commercial for this game it might go something like this

2 missed PATs and a missed FG
.........5 points

5 turnovers
...........spotting Tulsa 21 points, not counting the touchdown after the missed FG

13 penalties
............. 138 yards. lost momentum, missed opportunities

Losing a game we could have won 52-34............priceless

It's amazing how mistakes will come back to haunt you. At the end we had 694 yards of offense(157 rushing, 537 passing), and 36 first downs. We controlled the clock for 35 of 60 minutes, converted almost 50% of our third downs, 67% of our fourth downs, averaged almost 26 yards per kickoff return, overall averaging 7.4 yards per play.



Mindblowing.



I'm removing the poll I had up earlier this week because it just doesn't seem funny to me anymore.

Go Cougars. We're still cheering.

As an aside, how does a school in a landlocked state pick the name "Golden Hurricanes"

Patience wearing thin...

It is 1222 sunday morning. BYU just got flagged for it's eleventh penalty and proceeded to give the ball back to Tulsa. As big a BYU fan as I am, I cannot stand to watch so many mental mistakes. Take back the penalties and we are in the lead. Give me a secondary sans Quinn Gooch and we are soundly beating the Golden Hurricane. I just don't have the heart to keep watching this tonight. This is not BYU football, this is Crowton-ball. This is high school, junior varsity, we went out and got plastered last night, football. Give me a break. I can understand one week of mistakes, but to play like this for the second week in a row while knowing that our archrival has thumped UCLA is unthinkable. I'm glad I haven't had to feel like I wasted my money buying tickets to these games.

Be advised...if for some reason we pull off a win, the sting comes out of the preceding text, but the fact remains that we don't deserve to win this game.

We are fiddling around with this foxytunes stuff. Sorry for the meaningless post.

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Now playing: Coldplay - Crests of Waves
via FoxyTunes

Quote of the Day

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

-George Santayana


A statement that is not only to be understood in terms of socio-economic, historic and political matters, but one that begs to be implemented in our daily routines. Why are we, as humans, doomed to pick ourselves up from falling flat on our faces, only to stumble in kind the next day.

XC at the Y

I don't mean to brag or anything(.....riiiiight), but my sister is on the cross country team at BYU. Her first race is this weekend and if any of my friends at BYU feel like cheering her on, the race is at 10am sep. 8 at East Bay Golf Course in Provo. My parents will be there and so just look for the big guy that looks a lot like me yelling either the name Jessica or Hauser at the top of his lungs.

Here is a link to her profile at byucougars. com

http://www.byucougars.com/Profile.jsp?ID=5313

Another BYU v UA Highlight vid

http://www.justanotherdumb.com/byu/

Labor Day

Happy Labor Day, Everyone!

Josh and I decided to make the most of the day off so we went hiking in Pittsfield, MA. It was gorgeous and green, something we've missed for a while. Unfortunately with the green comes the absence of mountains...but the hills weren't that bad. The trails were really pretty and we're excited to go camping there sometime.

By the way - don't mind the fact that I look like an elf in this picture. Anyway, we saw a lot of interesting things on our ride to Pittsfield. Some of them include a Spanish style pink Catholic Church that looked like it belonged in Mexico (or California), a Mug (as in the root beer) Bug (as in the car), and exotic piercing shop, a high school that was bigger than the town hall (and I mean way bigger, with a dome and everything) and this sign outside a church, shown below:
I asked Josh why our church doesn't subscribe to this kind of advertising...

After hanging around, we watched a little bit of football and then went mini-golfing. It was a lot of fun even though Josh beat me by 6 strokes. Now we're sitting down to watch a couple of episodes of Scrubs:) Let the good times roll...

Back in NY

We moved back to New York a few weeks ago! It's good to be back, but it has taken a little while to get used to humidity again. We got too used to the dry Utah summers.

I started my masters in public health program on Tuesday at the University at Albany and Fran is still doing research for her office at BYU while she continues to look for a full-time teaching job.


The drive across country was rather uneventful. We stopped at Cedar Point Amusement Park to celebrate our one-year anniversary. It's hard to believe that it has been a whole year since we got married. It seems like so much has happened. We feel really good about this move and know that it was for the best. We are a lot closer to family and even to some of our friends still. Boston, Providence and DC aren't that far away. It's too bad we had to miss Rye and Kerstin's bundle of poop and joy come into the world. We were hoping that we could have been there to say hi.



I have to say that yesterday was kind of a sad day for me. I really miss going to the BYU football games and with the durn .mtn network, it makes it really hard to watch them here on the east coast. At least we avenged the loss to Arizona last year and I could listen to it on the radio via ksl.com.





Our new apartment is on the outskirts of greater Albany in a town called East Greenbush. Most of my classes are held at SUNY Albany's East Campus which is only a few miles down the road and I'll be in labs at the Wadsworth Center in the State Capitol Plaza as well as Albany Med and some other institutes. It's not medical school, but it will be good preparation for it. Hopefully I get in this time around.

Anyway, we miss our friends in utah and especially my sisters Caitlin and Jessica who are both out there now. Cheer hard for the Cougars.
Fully Invested.