Big 10 Football Tour

Big 10 Tour members defects to see a Pac 10 team play a team who has already lost to a Big 10 team
 
As you can probably guess, the television networks think the USC/Notre Dame game is a bigger deal than Purdue/Ohio State.   As you read this, you probably agree with the networks, but then again you didn’t agree to become part of the Big 10 Tour.
 
Last week, the members of the Big 10 Tour received the following email from one of their members with parenthesis around the what should have been said:
 
"I can't make it to the game on 10/17.  Julie (co-worker) has tickets (from a vendor) to the USC-Notre Dame game that afternoon, and I was invited along...I couldn't turn down the opportunity to see that game.
 
I'll send you the contact info for (a person that you’ve never met nor ever spoken to), but I don't want to ask for more (even though I didn’t ask for these) tickets since they are giving me tickets to one of the biggest, if not the biggest, college football rivalry game.  I would feel awkward asking for something on top of a ticket like that (even though I agreed to help the Big 10 Tour and am clearly only helping myself here).
 However, if you (not me, who knows this person) can spin an
 e-mail with the website, we're looking for help, we work (with others you know), then you (even though I want to be part of the “you” when other games come around) might be able to score tickets to Wisconsin and possibly other teams that (vendor) sponsors."
 
Now as you can probably guess this irritated many of the “tour” members as we all agreed to attend as many games as possible.  “Found a more appealing game to attend” doesn’t qualify as a valid excuse.  Unfortunately when a single person drops from the fold, everyone’s expenses increase & is responsible for doing more.
 
So Purdue – email us – what do you think about Wes’ decision to shaft your school?  The best comments will be posted on an upcoming blog post!

It's been about two weeks since our last post.  Of course as we get further and further into the tour, things come up in life such as your muffler getting a hole in it and you need to spend several hundred dollars to get it replaced. 

In case you missed it, we posted our Northwestern blog last week.  Yet another great time!

This week, we've put up our recap on Illinois and tonight we're packing for our trip to Iowa City.  Our first night game!  Prime time on ABC.  The Hawkeyes try to keep their undefeated streak going and are urging all fans to participate in a "blackout."  A perfect opportunity for the Big 10 Tour sweatshirts.

In other news, there is so much fun to be had in Big 10 Football, we're considering a "bonus week" during the weekend of 11/21.  Michigan, Michigan State, Iowa, Indiana, & Northwestern all hold home games...so maybe just maybe this party will continue for a 12th straight weekend!

In our Illinois blog, we've begun to brag about our bean bag skills - so if anyone can beat Jeff & Drew 2 on 2, you win a Big 10 tour t-shirt.  Check out some of our bean bag photos here!

& if you haven't started following us on Twitter, you can follow our tweets here!

Off to become the mid-20 adults of the corn!