Countdown to Kickoff

So, this past Saturday Alex and I attended the Countdown to Kickoff at the pactice fields on campus. There were alot of Georgia's past football players there that play for the NFL now, and a whole bunch of the guys that are on the team now. Unfortunately, niether Knowshon Moreno or Matthew Stafford were there; and coach Richt wasn't there either - BUMMER. But, we weren't going to let that keep us from getting a whole bunch of autographs!!

Here is Alex!! - We stood in line for such a long time before they even let us inside the field. It was this crazy set up where we had to stand in one line to get a stamp on our hand and then get into another line once we got out stamp to get into the field.

Alex thinks he's so cool with his sunglasses... :)

Alex with Thomas Brown. Look at his little belly pooching out!! :)Here we are with David Green - yes.... it is really him!! There was this HUGE line to get autographs from previous players and he was the first one the line went through - well, we weren't in the line... there was this lady there serving as like the "line gaurd" and she totally pushed us in front and THEN she offered to take our picture with him!!! AWESOME!

...and not only that, but there was this camera guy walking around shotting video for georgiadogs.com and we checked later and we are totally on the video standing there with David Green!!

I got Kregg Lumpkins autograph on our helmet... he was so NICE!! Throughout the whole time they were out there signing, the guys would switch out and some would be doing autographs while others would be taking a breather... I think out of all the guys out there he was the only one who wouldn't say no to autograph. The rest of the guys would just walk away when their time was up... not Kregg. He stood there until he was dragged away!

At first, they had it set up where there were groups of guys all in one place and they had people standing in line to get like four or five autographs/pictures at a time. NOT a good idea - until they spread the players out, this is was the lines looked like -and there were other lines that were even longer! It was unimaginable and the heat was unbearable. I wanted to KILL Alex for making me go. I thought I was going to die. Fortunately, the clouds came out for us and blocked that hot, hot sun! It cooled down quite a bit after that. They also had free water and new flavors of powerade out for everyone, which definitely helped.

This was Alex's football and on this half are just some of the signatures he got. 14 to be exact.This is one side of Alex's helmet - I got all the signatures on this one - 17 to be exact. I WIN!!

Alex at the G right before we left. He is so excited about all his autographs. Though at first it was a miserable time, it was really cool to meet some of the previous players and ones are that on the team now. They seem so much bigger when you see them playing on the field or on T.V. and in person some of them were the same size as me!! ...except, with muscles and stuff...

This was a really awesome experience.