A second field and then a bunch of fields!

What a busy weekend! There was much to do with work and demolition on the bathroom, and I did none of it.

Friday night was the Bears draft party, to which I had two free tickets courtesy of the Season Ticket Holder Advisory Group. With LL out of town, I took my buddy Markakis. Unfortunately the event was sponsored by Miller, so I had to drink Miller High Life, the lesser of several evils, though they were only charging $5 a glass.

So what do you do at an NFL draft party on day two of the draft?  Well, we bought some discounted used sideline equipment/clothing for one. They had all sorts of things to choose from, mostly in xxl or xxxl or xxxxl, and I'm serious. They had everything from socks to football pants to pullovers to shirts. Good stuff! With every purchase, by the way we had to wait in a decent line to get into where the clothes were in the first place, you received an autographed mini Bears helmet.  Who signed it varied throughout the nice I guess and the early folks got the best ones. Ours were signed by Devin Aromashadu, who was a wide receiver for the Bears....two years ago. Last year he played for Minnesota. Crazy.  Well, it was free, so whatever. Then we went and got the mini helmet  autographed byNick Roach, outside linebacker for the Bears.  Ok, the value was increased slightly. Then we saw D.J. Moore, defensive back for the Bears. He was just wandering around so he didn't have a silver Sharpie, which is what you needed to sign the mini helmet, so we had him sign this orange-6-pack-beer-carrier-thingy.

Then we took a tour of the locker room, went down on the field and were ready to call it a night when we decided to see if anyone was still signing autographs upstairs. Nobody was, but the Bears first round draft choice, Shea McClellin was going to be coming upstairs in about 15 minutes, so we were one of the first few people in line! Nice! He had a silver Sharpie so he autographed the mini helmet, whose value went up significantly!  Now for Pictures!!




Here's Shea autographing my helmet. Picture courtesy of Nick, aka Markakis.
















Shea shaking my hand! Not sure why I was hunched over....guess I thought I had to lean in. He's not that big a guy, which is why I think he wasn't a great first round pick for the type of defense we play. We needed someone bigger who can handle big lineman as they rushed the passer. Shea is more of a stand-up linebacker who would work better in a 3-4 scheme versus the Bears 4-3.

Nick and Shea. Nick is carrying the orange beer-tote thingy.










Here's the entry out onto Soldier Field. It was my second professional field that I was on in as many days. If not for softball on Saturday, I could have taken a tour of Wrigley and maybe got three in three days!!
















The sweet, sweet field at Soldier Field.  My season ticket seats are in the picture. Can you find them??

OK, so running onto the field was a no-no. That's fine. It was still cool to see.

Here I am with the schedule for the last regular season home game (against Seattle).  Just making sure the schedule makes sense.....

Here's Nick in front of Charles "Peanut" Tillman's locker.

And I guess that's all of the pictures!  It was a fun night and Nick enjoyed himself as well.  Tomorrow I'll tell you about all the softball we played. Just two games on Saturday (along with batting practice and some team together time at a bar) and then from 7 to 6 on Sunday.  It was not warm, again, but the results were good! More tomorrow.