Oh, Man!

Trent in this sweatshirt was Dan's undoing.

We left for vacation on Saturday and Dan purposely did not listen to the Illini game on the radio because he wanted to tape it and watch it when we got home on Thursday. He has avoided ESPN, most of his favorite internet sites, and voicemail/text messages to avoid learning the outcome. He thought if he made it through the weekend he would be in the clear. However, today 1,120 feet underground deep inside Lookout Mountain at Ruby Falls, Trent's sweatshirt caused catastrophe. Fate would have it that we would just happen to be at the end of the tour line with a gentleman from Chattanooga, TN whose Great-grandfather taught math at the University of Illinois and who just happened to graduate from Minnesota. One off-hand comment ruined all of Dan's carefully constructed plans! "I was glad to see Illinois beat Michigan last week and didn't even mind too much when they beat Minnesota this weekend" NNNNOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Naturally, Dan does not find this as funny as I do. I do feel badly though, Dan would have gotten such simple pleasure from watching the game when we got home. But I just can't help myself, it is just too funny, even now I am cracking up thinking about it.