Paternoville

2006:

First game: Temple? It was the weekend after I moved to PA, I went with my roommate Alex as she was the only person I knew, and we bonded and became friends at this game. It rained cats and dogs but we made a vow that we would never leave a football game a second before the game was over, and till this day we never have.

First Paternoville: Michigan 2006. This is when Alex and I met Alex Cohen, Lebowitz, Bob, Micah, Ian, and Aaron. They let us join their group. I never experienced anything like Paternoville before, I never will again. From that game on we were hooked. We P-Villed again for the other big home game that season.

2007:
This season we Paternovilled almost every game, certainly every game we could, we might have missed two or three. But we became part of Tony's Tribe and we befriended TJ and Mike and Chris and Vanessa and Natalie, but they were a separate section from us. Tony's Tribe was Cohen, Lebo, Aaron, Bob, Ian, Micah, ect...It was awsome.

2008:
Didn't miss Paternoville for one game. It has become a part of college life. We are now AJ's Runaways. TJ, Chris, Vanessa, Natalie, Alex, Bob, Mike, Stephanie, and I. I can't tell you how much fun we had this season and how it breaks my heart to miss the last game of the season.

It kills me that I will miss next season, maybe I should have decided to study abroad in the Spring and soley base this decision on football, it's justified.

Things I won't miss about Paternoville/football:
-Not sleeping for more than two hrs a night, 3-5 nights in a row because it's too damn cold to sleep.
-Sleeping on the cold cement
-Sleeping in a damp/wet tent/sleeping bag because it is raining
-getting up at 8am to move my car from Shields building to Beaver Stadium
-getting up at 6:30am to tear down our tent
-not being able to eat from 8am till 6pm during big games
-The hike from beaver staduim to Stuckman and back, ugh!
-Annoying non-pvillers screaming at 4am during week-long pvilles.

Things I will miss about Paternoville/football:
-Friends
-snuggling in the tent with whoever
-the drums
-chanting hate songs
-creating hate songs (Hey, Austin)
-Mob Mentality (mob chants, ect...)
-Giant food fights
-putting people in the tree
-free food from random people who feel bad for us
-catchphrase
-slip-n-slide
-Africa
-random stadium music that has nothing to do with anything
-yelling at Morelli, or whomever is pissing us off at the moment
-being on the rail (the view!!)
-Chris AKA Spiderman the Cameraman
-Being on the Gumbotron constantly
-PJ, and her fire-twirling batons
-Random blue-band half-time theme
-the "s" zone
-Being tossed when we score
-Passing the lion, and grabbing his ass
-Seeing JoPa on the field
-Zombie Nation
-Tequila!
-Painting Up
-Slow wave and Crack wave
-Booing the opposing team's fans during the wave
-The feeling of victory
-and so many, many, many more things....

I already miss this and I can't wait till my extra fall semester. I hope I can find a legit reason to stay, double major??

Penn State Football, you are the love of my life.