Football and “30 in 30″ goals

Last week my Dad took me to my first ever NFL game. It was a preseason game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Oakland Raiders. I think the last football game I’d attended in person was a Waterloo game in my first year of university. This was a bit different. The best word I can find to describe it is BIGGER. The stadium, the noise, the players and the intensity were all bigger. I had a great time but I actually found it a little hard to follow the game. That’s probably because I was easily distracted by what was going on around the stadium and because I only have a working knowlege of the rules of football and don’t understand the intricacies of the sport.

Attending this game counts toward one of my “30 in 30″ goals that I’m going to be working on during my 30th year on this planet. Actually this is the only one I’m currently working on. My original plan was to attend 30 sporting events between January 2007 and December 2008 (age 28.5 – 30.5, I’m using a loose definition of 30th year here). However, I’m way ahead of schedule, 17 at last count.

Another 30 in 30 goal is going to be to run 6 5Ks (because 6×5=30) in 2008. That’s all I’ve got so far so I’m taking suggestions for goals with a theme of 30. While you think about that I’ll leave you with a few shots from previous sporting events…