No, not that Finley Stadium...
This Finley Stadium is in Campbellsville, Kentucky...
((pictured, thanks to me))
Campbellsville is somewhere in between Bowling Green, Kentucky and Louisville. All you need to do is work your way up I-65 from Bowling Green and either do one of two things. You can go onto the Cumberlands Parkway, get off in Edmonton ((no, not that Edmonton)) and travel north on US68.
That's what I did... and, by the way, I ran smack in to the middle of the county's pumpkin festival. It rendered the town square in Edmonton in to a three-way stop from a four-way stop. I think it's safe to say that it was the only thing close to a stop light in the county.
I think...
What the rest of the travelling posse did was work their way further up I-65, turn off at another mile marker entirely and get a fairly straight shot in to town.
I should have taken that route... I wouldn't have missed the first three minutes of the game trying to find Campbellsville University and a subsequent media parking space. I made it into earshot soon enough to catch the pre-game show from the "Campbellsville Tigers Football Radio Network." But as you approach the town from the south, there isn't a marker telling you where the school actually is.
No idea where to turn... at all...
So, I did what any travelling soul does... drive straight through town, turn around and try it from the north... that actually worked. But I missed the first drive of the game and the Tigers 7-0 lead. But that wasn't neccessary for my studying purposes...
The rest of the game was...
Shorter wins the game 24-14, driving the coaches crazy as they do at times this year... I know Head Coach Phil Jones ((all-around good guy, by the way...)) is nuts over all the penalties.
And AJ Cooley is, officially, out of control... two weeks in a row rushing for over 200 yards- this past week, somewhere from 216 to 220 on 25 carries including an absolutely ridiculous 98-yard run for a score. Eight Tigers defenders were crowding the line of scrimmage, Cooley found a hole, and no one...
And I mean "no one" was there...
But that's what happens when you are the top-ranked rushing offense in the NAIA...
Everyone sells out, and sometimes it's "no sale..."
The ride home was another one filled with a lot of pizza on the buses home for the players.
And, as we say: "The bus is warm, the drinks are cold, and they're heading home."
Next up is a home game against Lambuth University, who apparently is chasing a life in Division II football sometime soon- I think 2010.
Coach Jones is worried, but he is, after all, a head coach.
The benefits of yours-truly's rental car- satellite radio, so I never missed a thing on the drive home... I love the ingenuity of this country...
The Hawks are the same way with me, too...
Guilty as charged... more next week...
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