I lived in Laramie about a decade ago, there for a few years of grad school, but this was only the 2nd or 3rd time in the stadium for CFB.

We entered the stadium on the south side and walked right up to the portal where the team came out. It was fun for my boys to see them up close and get high-5's from them. One son had a shirt with KS on it (Heisman pose that he apparently doesn't like), Kalani came up and said something like "Oh man, I don't know about that shirt...." but was still cool and thanked us for being there. We were still down there when the choppers flew over during the national anthem - I thought that was pretty cool and wished I'd be able to have a better view.

Our seats were way up high, not a great view of the field or the big screen, but we still saw the holds... And the weather was amazing - not something you can say that often about Laramie. August through October can be great, November through April not so much.


Ended up seeing a cousin and her husband in our same section, both in yellow. He's a BIG UW fan and BYU hater, he said something along the lines of "we're here for the butt-whoopin" to which I replied "well you're about to see one". Luckily he was mostly surrounded by BYU fans so he got to hear us sing the fight song a whole lot. He's the little yellow hat in a sea of blue


BYU's crowd was great. Props to the guy who stood up and yelled "That's another Cougar...." anytime we got a 1st down. During the 2nd quarter Tom Holmoe came strolling out of the press box and handed us some pizza's. Being the short-sighted smart aleck I am, when he approached us I simply said "What's up Tom?" He was cool, said they had leftover pizza and they wanted to share with the BYU faithful.

While there we didn't have any negative interactions with UW fans, it probably helps that the game was never really in question. After the game we hit a very crowded gas station where one old-timer said "Thanks for going easy on us." Nice of him to say, though I think the score should have been 48-0.