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!

We're off to the Twin Cities at 7 AM on Friday.  It's said to be a beautiful weekend in the high 70's/low 80's.  We're doing a tour of TCF Bank stadium on Friday afternoon and tailgating at the crack of dawn with some of the notable Minnesota fans, &wearing our Brew's Crew tshirts...well as long as we don't spend the whole weekend shopping at the Mall of America.

Unfortunately Minnesota won't get to meet Blake or Wes on this trip.  Blake is covering for Drew at work and working on his music career after finding this great new guitar in Michigan.  It's unfortunate that we won't have Blake this weekend because he's our best photographer & the good conscience of the group!

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Wes is missing this weekend's trip because he's driving up to Green Bay to see the Packers play some other National Football League opponent.

Last weekend, we had Adrienne Bryl join us for Michigan State and this weekend our unofficial 6th member will be Dan Lins.  Dan will be flying in from Phoenix.  Dan has never been to a Big Ten school, but did attend the Rose Bowl last year.  Damn, we are ameteurs!

Next week will feature the debut of Dan Lawrence at the Northwestern game, where we'll once again see Minnesota play football; this time in Evanston, IL.   Be sure to follow us on Twitter (Big10Drew) and call us if you're in the Cities this weekend.