Football Tonight . . .

The last ball game of the year - for LSU anyway.  LSU at the Peach Bowl (aka Chic-fil-E Bowl or the chicken bowl) in Atlanta.  LSU is often a visitor to that facility, season openers and SEC title games.  LSU has played there often.

I will be at Humperdinks for the LSU Watch Party tonight.   Hump's is buying food as well as the Tarrant Tigers, sort of our annual holiday season party.  I expect a big turn out, hope so anyway.  Hump's is a brew pub, non-smoking and lots of parking available.

We had our first watch party this year at a crummy place named "Oscar's."   We had the basement, well it was not much of a basement.  I really think the place was a converted McDonald's Restaurant.   People left at half time and I think it soured the attendance for the year.

When Ray Croc bought out the rights to the McDonald brothers of San Bernardino, CA, one of the stipulations was that each restaurant had to have a basement.  So for years, every McDonalds had a smallish basement, used for storage.  When the last of the McDonald brothers died and Ray Croc passed on, this requirement died with them.  Anyway, I think Oscar's was a converted McDonalds for the past.

We had good attendance but such lousy service at Oscar's and facility generally spoiled the later season watch parties.  Nobody would come anymore.  We also developed a second location in downtown Fort Worth.  I went to one game there, it was loud and the parking was lousy.

Humperdinks generally gives us their banquet room and a degree of privacy.  They are very cooperative.  And I am sure for the next season opener, LSU versus Texas Christian University will be another barn burner.  When we opened with the Oregon we pumped about 3,000 fans through Humps.  We did similar with the Cotton Bowl when we played the Aggies.

Humps is close to the Texas Rangers/Dallas Cowboys stadiums in Arlington, Texas.  They have a livery service that will take you to the stadiums and pick up after the game.  Parking at Humps is free.  Parking at the Cowboys Stadium starts at $25.  Livery service is $10 per person, so can be kinda good deal depending on the amount of folks involved.

The Tarrant Tigers, the LSU Tarrant County Alumni Association collected about $4,500 ~ $5,500 for the scholarship fund.  Due to those games, we have endowed a scholarship at LSU and are close to endowing another one.  We do have enough funds to give three scholarships per year, one from the endowment, one from our chapter funds and one from a member couple.

LSU has about 200 or so students per year attend schoool from the Dallas/Fort Worth area.  Competition for the scholarships is fierce.