Five Things For Lehigh Fans To Do This Weekend

Oh, yeah. I know all of you out there are worried you're going to be like this guy this weekend with no Lehigh football game to watch. Worse, you might get stuck doing chores around the house, or possibly getting conned into going to the movie theater to catch I Know Who Killed Me. Fear not, though: you've come to the right place. I've come up with five things to do on this Labor Day weekend instead of laboring about what you're going to do with this weekend without football.

5. It's the last free Saturday you're going to have until December 28th; may as well get some Brownie Points with your significant other and get that nagging project done or go do that thing that they want to do this weekend. (Believe me, you'll be thanking me when Thanksgiving weekend you're faced with convincing them to take an impromptu road trip to Furman, SC.)

4. If you have ESPN 360, Villanova will be playing Maryland live on your computer on 6PM Saturday. Time to do some scouting - preferably with a cold Yuengling in hand.

3. If you have to see a Lehigh sporting event this weekend, you could take in Lehigh's nationally-ranked men's soccer team on Saturday when they take on Drexel.

2. If you don't get ESPN 360 and men's soccer isn't your thing, there's another game in the Valley this weekend you can scout out: those guys in Easton are hosting Marist at 6PM as well. (For fun, you can start a friendly pool: how many starting QBs will Lafayette head coach Frank Tavani be playing in this game? Three? Four?)

1. You could have that final cookout to test out that chili recipe, to test that deep-frying technique for your turkey, to test that "killer cocktail", or simply to make sure you're in practice for the many, many tailgates you'll be partaking in this year at Murray Goodman or elsewhere. There's no better place to experiment on this stuff than on friends and family.

Next week, check out my projected two-deep, analysis of the Lehigh/Villanova game, and more!

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