The plan…
… barring rain, is to walk to the game on Saturday. It’s about three miles from where we’ll begin the pregame festivities, and I’m hoping to make the trek in 45 minutes. My wife and I have made that sort of hike a couple of times fairly recently, but never without being fairly wiped after doing so. Fortunately, we’ll have a nice, hard aluminum bench to rest for about four hours on, squeezed in amongst the faithful. 
I’m actually pretty excited about the walk for a few reasons. First, my wife suffered through some pretty serious back issues for the last two years, which made that sort of trek all but impossible. In fact, we changed seats this season so that the number of steps we have to travel is minimal, as the up-and-down still isn’t as good as it will be. While the seats we’ll have won’t be as good from the view of a football purist like myself, we will have an awesome view of this glorious monstrosity.
Additionally, I’m not really sure I could have hauled my bulk down three miles of even the flattest of streets (You know the line from Oklahoma about the “Where the wind comes sweepin’ down the plains?” Yeah, they meant Norman.). It would have just about wiped me for the rest of that day, and most of the next, as well. So, I’m hoping that, come Saturday, I’ll be able to enjoy the walk AND the game.
Finally, I won’t miss hunting for parking and paying $10 for a spot in a mud hole I’ll need a shoehorn to get my car out of.
Boomer Sooner, and Keep the Faith!
-s2bs Sooner
