We got to the Miami area around 10pm Saturday night, where we wandered around the suburbs for a bit looking for a motel. My GPS led us deep into the ghetto, then we turned around and found a place called the Melrose Park Motel, which was in Plantation, a place that the lodgings' owner was proud to point out was "The last southern bastion of white people until recently". He showed us around the cramped room, telling us that it had been Newly Renovated....then proceeded to pick a booger off the wall with his finger and state that the worthless maid must have missed one.
After nodding politely till he gave us the keys and left us alone, Steve and I started wondering if our KKK recruitment packages would be waiting outside the door for us in the morning.
That would turn out to be the least of our worries, as the window-unit air conditioner made a hell of a racket, which wouldn't have been so bad if it wouldn't have been for the fact that the damned thing would make a racket to raise the dead for 15 minutes, then be quiet for five or six before starting again.
We had to yell at each other just to be heard.
By about 2am, with many unsuccessful attempts at sleep, we were getting punchy.
Air Conditioner "Brrtrrrtttrrrraaaahhh."
Me: "I think I'm starting to hear secret codes in the buzzing."
Steve: "Hell, its been telling me to kill you for an hour now."
Eventually, we turned the fucking thing off and, on the paper thin sheets and blanket and stone-hard beds, finally got about an hour or so of sleep.
We left the mo-hell by 9am, grabbed breakfast at Dunkin just outside the stadium, and were among the early crowds by 10:00.
Sun Life Stadium, and the JumboTron promoting the game
Steve and I wandered around a bit, then headed into the stadium proper to watch the pregame warmups.
Matt Prater practices field goals. He would miss 2 of the 3 he attempted in the game.
Opening Ceremonies
For any football fans out there, you already know what happened.
For those that don't follow the sport, the Dolphins pounded on us like re-headed stepchildren until the game was 15-0 with about 5min to go in the fourth quarter. It was positive that both our teams were going to be 1-5 after this game and the Dolphins' first win would be against my beloved Broncos.
Then, my team remembered how to play football, scored a touchdown, kicked the extra point, recovered an onside kick, scored ANOTHER touchdown and our sophomore QB trotted into the endzone for a 2pt conversion. As time ran out on regulation, the score was 15-15, and we were headed to overtime.
Tebow chucks the ball......
.....and Demaryius Thomas hauls in the grab for the Broncos' first TD of the 4th QTR
The onside kick and recovery
Daniel Fells runs into the endzone for the 2nd Broncos TD of the 4th Qrtr
Tim Tebow takes it in for the 2pt conversion, tying the game
After some back and forth, Denver kicked a field goal to end the game and come away with a victory.
Prater makes the only FG that counts. In the second shot, the ball is, perhaps ironically, dead center in front of the guy in the Gators Tebow jersey.
And for Steve and I??? Yeah...we met the Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders ;)
Hooker boots, hooker boots - you know how much I damn well hate those hooker boots!!
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Sounds as though you had an interesting trip, lol!
This is NOT what I've heard. I hear you've quite the collection :P
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