Balls Tate
Well, we’re still undefeated at home! It’s been a week, and I’m still disgusted about the Troy State game, but what do you do. Tailgate, that’s what.
The Tigers face the Cardinals from Ball State University on Saturday at 1:00 p.m. Sarah & I will be out at the tailgate by 10:00. As always, please feel free to stop by. If you’d like us to take anything to the tailgate for you, please bring to the house Friday night sometime.
On to Muncie, Indiana’s own Ball State University…. how long do you suppose they had to think about the name “Ball State”? Seriously. Ball State? Luckily, the internet has all the answers. From www.bsu.edu “HISTORY — The university began as a private normal school that opened in 1899. Eventually, the campus and buildings were purchased by the Ball brothers, Muncie industrialists, and given to the State of Indiana in 1918. The institution became a university in 1965.”
After reading that, the more serious question is “began as a private normal school”? All the creative juices were flowing when they wrote that one. As opposed to all the other universities in Indiana that began as wide-open insitutions for three-legged bug eaters? I’m trying to come up with any good reason for including “private normal school” in their history. First person to send me a funny one wins a prize.
Anyway, tailgate, Saturday, 10:00 a.m., kickoff, 1:08 p.m. If the game’s not over by half-time prepare for more public grunting and moaning.