Every year the university celebrates the homecoming of its alumni with a weeklong festivities and events. The highlight of the homecoming week is the weekend homecoming parade and the homecoming football (American) match. I woke up late on Saturday and barely made it to the parade just in time to see the last few floats roll by! After the parade I joined my friends who were already tailgating. Tailgating is a custom very popular in America. The idea is to have a party some three hours before the football game in a parking lot usually near the football stadium. So you have your cars parked in the parking lot and then have a good time gathered near your vehicle. Usually you barbeque and have beer, play games like bean bag toss and have a great time with your friends. We were having so much fun that we decided to skip the match and continue tailgating till the officials call an end to all tailgating which happens a little before the close of the first half of the game.

So before we got thrown out of the parking lot we decided to continue partying in a nearby sports bar. Since I had brought my camera I decided to take some shots of the game. So I went to the football field and watched a little bit of the match and all of the half time show of the big red marching band (put the link here). When the game resumed after half time, the scores were tied at 17 each. Satisfied with the pictures that I clicked, I left the stadium and joined my friends at the sports bar. We had more beer, not so healthy food and played lots of darts.  Time was about 6:00 pm and we decided to call it day and the homecoming 2005 officially ended for me and my friends.

I later found out that the game was an interesting one and we gave the visitors a tough fight before losing to them by 3 points in the over time. The final score were Hill Toppers (visitors): 37, Redbirds (home): 34.

Here is a snapshot from that day: