Jinxed

Riding a 30-game home-winning streak, the USAFA Falcons were looking to close out their regular season with a win. Unbeknownst to them, they'd run into their toughest oppenent yet; the bad luck coming from high up in the rafters... that of the Lindell boys.

Having been given the free tickets earlier that day, and never having been to a Falcons basketball game, Hunter and Daddy found their place in the line of hundreds of cars crawling up to the top of a bluff that houses Clune Areana. What we didn't know was that we'd be parking nearly a mile a way, and we'd get to hike through the cold and snow (ok just flurries but it adds an element of drama). Inside, and through the metal detectors we found our seats just a few rows from the top. Once situated, it took Hunter a while to adjust to the noise eminating from the sell-out crowd and all of the activities going on.

Oh, and there was a basketball game going on, and a pretty good one at that! Everytime the crowd cheered, Hunter asked "who scored?" to which I typically replied, "no one, the ball just went out of bounds" - which was another concept I got to teach him. The hardest lessons were attempting to explain why, especially in the second half when the Falcons fell behind, everyone kept "booing" the refs. Hunter didn't think it was very nice that the crowd made a ton of noise and waved their arms while the other team shot free-throws. But I did get him to belt out one of his world famous "ROOOAAAARRR!"'s towards the end.

Final score: BYU 62 - USAFA 58

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