My dad has been able to get Sugar bowl or national championship tickets in new orleans for 4 of the last 5 years. This has been a great trip to be on each year with my dad and watching football. Any easy flight followed by some great food and times in the big easy.
2008 - LSU 41 vs Ohio state 24 -- National Championship Game
2010 Florida 51 Cincinitti 24
2011 Ohio State 31 Arkansas 24o
2012 Alabama 21 LSU 0 - National Championship Game.
lucky we skipped 2009 because Alabama got whipped by Utah in that game. This year was extra speacial because Alabama was in the game. I was able to meet with Dwayne and meet both his daughers - i had met one of them before. He helped recruit me out of school to international paper and we had many fun times going on recruiting trips to alabama to hire finance and IT staff for IP. He has since retired and we had not had a chance to get together for 5 years or so. it was good to hang out and catch up on Bourbon. It was good to also be able to catch up with my buddy from college brent who is in houston and we are not able to connect up as often as we would like. it was good times. Every year we have gone the first days starts at Pat Obrien's and goes from there...A Hurricane or 2 and a dinner that night - the last 2 years has been the Palace Cafe which has been great. The 4 of us went up / down bourbon both nights, ate good food, and enjoyed each others conversations and discusions. (Hey i wonder how that girl got those beads)....Morton Salt hosted my dad for the 4th year and jason and Chris were fun as always and great hosts. The seats were great - about 8 row right at the pylon where the alabama team ran out from the locker room.
It was a great time to be able to spend hanging with Geno who is also turning the big 60 this weekend. Can't wait until next year....
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