Iowa playing Syracuse under the lights

I was very disappointed that the Iowa - Syracuse football game was moved to a night game this fall.

My wife is pregnant and due in the middle of October. I had to sell most of my season tickets and the only home game I am going to be able to go to is the Syracuse game.

The kids are 4 1/2 so I was thinking of taking them to the game so they could get the experience and my wife could get a weekend home alone late in her pregnancy.

We have to drive 4 hours to get to the game and my kids are pretty much incapable of staying up after 8pm. There’s no way that they could make it through the Syracuse game.

If I was going to be able to go to a normal number of games, I would actually consider taking them just to watch the first quarter and then leave. They could sleep on the way home. Plus at this age they won’t want to be at the stadium for much more than a quarter anyway.

But, it is my only game at Kinnick this year. The only other game that I’ll be going to is the season opener against Northern Illinois at Soldier Field.

It looks like the kids will have to wait until 2008. Since I’ll be home more Saturdays this fall, I’ll work on getting them hooked on watching the games on TV.