UT vs. Kentucky (US Part IV)

What is the one thing you have to do when you go to the US? Watch an American football game of course!! So before we arrived in Georgia we asked Raymond and Shelby to look for tickets for a profesisonal game or a college game. As it turned out, Laura, their daughter who works at the University of Tennessee, found two tickets for the college game between University of Tennessee (UT) and University of Kentucky. It's a classic rivalry between two neighbouring states and with the stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee, holding 106.000 spectators we were in for a real American experience!! College football is a huge sport in the US even though it is not professional.

On gameday, Laura equipped us with orange UT sweat shirts and brought us to the stadium. Outside, a huge number of fans were 'tailgating' which basically translates into making a barbecue in the trunk of your car. So whole families sit down before and after the game and have a great time in the back of their car... (picture 3). Inside the stadium, we seated ourselves with binoculars, coke and hot dogs ready to watch the show. And a show it was with entertainment before and after the game as well as during halftime - including a huge band making all kinds of formations on the field (picture 2)

Alltogether, we had an excellent day in the most beautiful sunshine and 25 degrees celcius - and Carsten got to see his American football game as promised!