October Surprise

This one doesn't involve anything political, this involves a very happy "October surprise" to report.

Your intrepid reporter forwarded a special 1-AA "gameday" diary of the Lehigh/Colgate game, and guess what? It's now on published on their website!!!

Fan Diary: Lehigh vs. Colgate

Please go on over there and enjoy!

Tomorrow, I'll give out game balls, press roundup, and all that stuff, but tonight I'm going to take a break! See you again tomorrow!

Comments

Anonymous said…

I just found this site and it is nice to see more about Lehigh Football. This site is really cool.

Thanks for joining us in the Hawks Nest last week it is usually a pretty exciting place to be.

With a game this big I felt the need to bring out the "dee-fense" chant early and often, I think most of our voices survived the entire game.

I was however disappointed in some of the parents in the Hawks Nest, they didn’t seem to know just how big this game was. Maybe their kids didn’t tell them what was at stake, or maybe the kids didn’t even know themselves. Every time I would turn around to try and get people excited to make noise for a big defensive stance they would look at me like I was nuts and continue sitting on their hands.

This is a great year for the big 3 sports at Lehigh with Basketball and Football competing for Patriot League Championships and Wrestling competing for a National Championship. What a great year to be a student at Lehigh!

Signed,
Young Jedi ‘07

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