David’s First Game

By Ronen

My recap, my title. :-)

Anyway, one only gets to appreciate true traffic every so often. With food in hand, idiots waiting in the parking lot, and a cousin in the passenger seat, I made it through too much famous Long Island traffic Saturday as David was passed out in dream land in the back. Hey, as long as he didn’t notice. As far as he knew, it took us five minutes to get there.

Anyway, yes, it was David’s first game, and to start off, the tailgate consisted of about 50 or so Kebab skewers, and you’d think Keith would’ve stopped to smell the paprika, but he was entirely too excited about his photo pass for the game, with his 20D in hand (it’s a camera).

John was able to get David to say Ah Yeah. David ate Kebab. David played in the car for a while. David kicked the ball around in the parking lot. David, David, David, David (for me, that was pretty much the day). So a big thanks to all the idiots who helped with David during the tailgate and game. For him and I, it was definitely one of the best and most memorable games (partly cause the drinking was subdued due to the cargo).

Speaking of children, Keith was on the field with his camera running around snapping shots of just about everything, and make sure to grab a look see at the pics; they are amazing. But back to Keith, his camera and his field presence. We did see him and Metro Dog disappear into the tunnel for a while, but hey, no pictures from that.

Metro’s actually played pretty well overall, but before some of the idiots made it down to their seats, the Revs were up 1-0 on a shot that Zach Wells shoulda, coulda and probably woulda had on any other day but Saturday. Then, while giving David a cookie, Gaven equalized for the Metro (thank god for the replay on the jumbotron). Most of the players had a decent game, but there’s much hope in Metroland because of the play and potential of Abbe Ibrahim who, while I was being fed popcorn by David, suffered what I understand was an unjust red card.

Nonetheless, Woly comes in, trips over himself, the ball bounces off of his thigh and ends up in the net with 7 or so minutes left. Woly celebrates as if he meant that to happen.

Short lived joy as midway through a Metro song while holding David, Zach Wells watches the very catchable ball make its way to Twellman’s head for the equalizer in the final minute.

Idiots missing included Paul (messy sock drawer), Drew (tea with Springsteen), Greg (waxing his pick up truck) and Jason (pick an excuse).

Great game, Great pics, Great David. Once again, a big thank you to all the idiots who helped make David’s day awesome.