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Coca-cola loves UR

Following up on the whole Spiders being undefeated and defending National Champions, I figured it would be a good idea to show you the new Coke cans that are now available in stores, not only on campus, but also in Ukrops and other Richmond grocery stores. If you go to the UR Stadium during one of the games, you can also get a couple for free!

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“Celebrate refreshed” the fact that the 2008 National Champions are the Richmond Spiders!

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I just think it’s unbelieveable that Coca-Cola did this. Granted, they have a contract with UR in order to be the only providers of soft drinks and other beverages, but I still think it’s pretty cool to have coke cans celebrating the fact that we won the tournament.

6-pack of commemorative coke cans - $10      It’s a BIG deal!

For more information on this you can visit http://www.richmondspiders.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/080509aaa.html

Published by Pedro on October 4, 2009 in Random fun, Sports and My Interests. 0 Comments

UN-DE-FEA-TED!

If you like football, but you don’t want to be in a school where you have to share a classroom with 300 other people in order to have a good team, then you should definitely come to UR. Coming from Peru, my high school never had a football team and so I never had a passion for this sport. The closest I got to experiencing something similar was being in the rugby team, but nothing had really prepared me for the football experience.

As soon as I got here, the football season began, but I was still not that much into it, until I heard about how good we were. I went to a game against Georgetown and we won 40-0, but it wasn’t until we got to the quarterfinals that I truly became a fan. I woke up one saturday afternoon and turned on the tv to find the Spiders playing against a random team I had never heard of before. I could see some friends on the football field and thought that was the coolest thing ever, so I kept watching. And we won, qualifying to the semifinals of the NCAA Divsion I tournament.

The day of the game against Northern Iowa, I called 6 of my friends and we all watched the game in my room with 3 pizza boxes in front of us. It was an amazing game! Ended up winning 21-20 in the last minute of the game and advanced to the championship game.

We won that one too, against Montana, and became 2008 NCAA Division I National Champions! It was unbelieveable and surreal to be experiencing all of that excitement during my first year at UR, and it was enough for me to not want to miss a single game.

This year, the Spiders have continued to win. After the first two games, at Duke and at Delaware, it was time for our first game home against Hofstra, and I knew there was no way I could miss that game. I started taking pictures of the scoreboard everytime we scored, but after a while I realized that it was pointless.

This was the last picture I took, with two quarters to go!

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We ended up winning the game 48-0. I think even the scorekeepers lost count after a while! But what I was able to get, right before leaving, was this amazing picture of Richmond’s PAT.

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Can you see the football? The kick is up aaaand…IT’S GOOD!

The Spiders have now won 12 consecutive games, dating back from last season!

Published by Pedro on September 28, 2009 in Sports. 0 Comments

Paint IN YOUR FACE!

I’ve never been too into going out to the lodges and the parties organized by the fraternities here at UR. Even though I have many friends who are in frats, I enjoy chilling out much more than partying like crazy. This is probably the reason why I felt identified with FIJI when rushing began, and was even really close to pledging. All the brothers are really close and know how to have fun without having to organize wild parties. They still know how to do the latter, though.

Last year FIJI Blacklight was probably one of the best parties I went to, and nothing similar to any other paint parties I had gone to back home. For that reason, I knew there was no way I could miss Blacklight this year. I got an old white shirt, bought new (but cheap) black shorts and put on the oldest socks and shoes, knowing they would probably be trashed by the end of the night.

And I was right.

I got there at around 11pm and the lodge was completely full and there were almost no paint bottles left. It was almost impossible to walk inside unless you bumped into a dozen people at a time, and the heat was disgusting. At first, the only way I was getting paint on my shirt was from other people, but at that point it was already mixed with their sweat. I was ready to get out. Fortunately, my friend found a couple of paint bottles and gave one to me. Other people started throwing paint from across the room as well, and the fun began.

Dancing and getting hit in the face by random splashes of paint wasn’t quite how I remembered it, probably because the place was packed and it felt like a sauna, but I had a great time nevertheless.

At the end of the night I looked something like this:

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Imagine what it would have been like had I arrived there early. Talk about paint in your face!

Published by Pedro on September 24, 2009 in Random fun. 0 Comments
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