Texts From Youngstown State Game Day
September 12, 2016 by Mike Casazza
A quick note about my cell phone. It’s a Samsung Galaxy S6. I’ve had it for about three weeks now, and as far as I can tell, it doesn’t spontaneously combust. Maybe it does. Again, I’ve had it a little more than three weeks. But in that time, I’ve protected my phone against intrusion.
I’m paranoid about losing it or having it fall in the wrong hands and then people getting a peak inside my world. Not that it’s that cool, mind you, but because there’s a lot of sensitive material in email and documents and, you know, texts. That’s how I communicate, I’d say, 80 percent of the time.
So without giving away trade secrets, I have something like 700 numbers and email addresses in my contacts folder and only a few names. Those are necessities, like utility companies and restaurants and customer service for airlines, hotels and rental car companies, so on and so forth. But I promise you if you do find my phone, you’ll never be able to find a number for Bob Huggins or Dana Holgorsen or Red Panda or Erick Elliott.
I take that back. You’ll find the number, but unless you recognize that number, you’ll never know whose it is. All the identities — the names with numbers — are hidden in an area I can access because I know how to access it. It’s like “Stranger Things.” Everything exists in the upside down.
This is a long way of saying I never know who is texting me during games and I’m interchangeably sorry about and jealous of what a few of you experienced Saturday. I judge wisely, as if nothing ever surprises me. Texting between two pillars of ivory. My edits are in [brackets].
10:40:
Why is Wolfman wearing a tuxedo?
11:41:
Random Gameday Observation; A football stadium in a race track is the most SEC thing that’s ever SEC’d.
11:41:
Other Gameday Observation; Pitt can still eat [stuffing], but James Conner is that dude. Respect.
11:47:
Saw Tressel in a polo and not a sweater vest. But as he walked toward the press box, someone yelled, “That wasn’t pass interference.” Cold!
11:48
*Gold! But also cold!
12:09:
You’ll find out later but QB1 didn’t practice all week. Crest got a ton of reps and looked good, might play early.
12:41:
Chasing down a rumor that there’s a real penguin in the Blue Lot.
1:32:
FYI: 5 years ago today waa the first beer i bought at mtneer field!
1:34:
Perfection is when you arrive at your seat in this heat and your BFF hands you a cold one and says, “I got you this because buying 2 was as easy as buying 1.”
1:37:
Re: Real penguin. False alarm. It’s a nun. Is it wrong to be [piqued]?
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