DreadDub

Heading to Breckenridge for 3 days in mid-June and then will head up to Estes Park for 3 days. No real plans other than to take the family hiking and enjoy some mountain air.

We've been to Estes Park (RMNP) before so know the drill there. Any suggestions for Breck area - hikes/restaurants/etc...contemplating taking a day trip from there to try and hit the Maroon Bells.

Just trying to break up the trip a bit and rentals in Breck are surprisingly cheap in the summer.

Had to track my mother and father down while they were vacationing in Europe to let them know my sister died unexpectedly. Took about a half a day to reach them via phone at a hotel. Sucked.

Two botched plays needing a throw home there with potential outs…par for the course with this squad when it matters.

Milan not exactly going full bore but made it

Did it this morning with my nephew. Rain stopped right at race time. Drove in from Metairie and the weather was crap on the commute.

Beer lines at after party weren’t long with the cold wind blowing.

Finished the 10k surprisingly well. Haven’t been able to train much with some ankle issues so didn’t quite know how it would go. Once I got in a pack the adrenaline kicked in and was able to knock it out. Not bad for turning 49 earlier in the week. Sure I will feel it tomorrow.

Overall cool experience.

We were tailgating that day and discussing what it would take to get the upset. A gust of wind picked up and blew the tree limbs over us and I jokingly said maybe a couple of passes will get floated in this wind and we can pick off a couple.

Baton Rouge was crazy that night. Cops were still directing traffic at Highland and State near 1 am. Some drunk LSU fan in nothing but purple boxers came running down Highland with a giant LSU flag. The cops stopped traffic to let him run right through.

Speaking of 2007 - took my neighbor to that one (his first LSU game). He still talks about it to this day in an almost religious reverence. I didn't see him for 3 days after. His wife just kept saying he hadn't recovered yet.

That day in Baton Rouge was the peak of tailgating culture before all the restrictions were put in place.

Damnit Bruce Katz...20 minutes is enough bro.

Last Sunday I took the family to Church…in pew 5 minutes before the mass starts and the 25 year old 2 rows behind us starts watching YouTube videos with no headphones.

I got up and politely asked him to turn off. He said he would when mass started. At that moment the politeness left my body…luckily an usher came next and told the guy to turn off or leave. Not a good look catching an assault charge at Church.

His family sat in the southwest endzone on my row for a few games the couple of years he was here. Nice people. Thoughts with them. Sad stuff.

Reduce capacity by putting seatbacks in lower bowl. Turn East Upper into a party deck with fans and mist for those September day games.

Upgrade the experience for the non-suite, club fan. Will have to sacrifice the capacity to do it. 85 - 90k is the sweet spot. By product will be better parking/traffic.

Quit nickle and diming the fans and give more free parking options closer to the stadium on campus to bring back the organic tailgating atmosphere.

Will never happen by the way but one can dream.

Jefferson Parish just announced school closures for tomorrow