{"id":1647,"date":"2008-09-13T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T04:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/13\/college-football-on-a-rainy-day\/"},"modified":"2008-09-13T22:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T04:56:00","slug":"college-football-on-a-rainy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/college-football-on-a-rainy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football on a Rainy Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the weather forecast showing rain in Chicago all day, the only sporting event option was to attend the Northwestern football game. Although the White Sox were scheduled to play a double header (after their Friday night game was postponed because of rain), it was pretty clear both White Sox games would be rained out.<\/p>\n

Today I drove up to Evanston to watch Northwestern host Southern Illinois. It was the first game I have attended where one of the teams was from Division I-AA (or the Football Championship Subdivision). Two weeks ago I received free tickets to the Northwestern game versus Syracuse<\/a>. Thus, I figured I would find free tickets to today\u2019s game since the weather was so poor. However, I bought a single ticket for $10 from an older woman who was with her son. I made the obligatory $10 offer so I would not have to stand out in the rain looking for a free ticket.<\/p>\n

I entered the stadium and realized why I could not find a free ticket. There was hardly anyone in the stadium. With a consistent rain and Northwestern playing a team from Division I-AA, it appeared people decided to stay home. Northwestern beat Southern Illinois 33-7 as Tyrell Sutton ran for 101 yards and 3 touchdowns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the weather forecast showing rain in Chicago all day, the only sporting event option was to attend the Northwestern football game. Although the White Sox were scheduled to play a double header (after their Friday night game was postponed because of rain), it was pretty clear both White Sox games would be rained out.
\nToday I drove up to Evanston to watch Northwestern host Southern Illinois. It was the first game I have attended where one of the teams was from Division I-AA (or the Football Championship Subdivision). Two weeks …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anygame-anywhere.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}