Okay, so I have a couple of things to admit here… 1) I’m not the biggest football fan in the world and 2) I’ve never been to a pro sporting event of any kind.  Well… unless of course you count our local hockey team.  I will very rarely turn down the opportunity to try something new though, so when our friends Jay Waggoner and Ashby Lincoln from Veristor invited my boss Aaron Sherrill and I to a Tennessee Titans game, I was fired up… and so was the Albino Bowler!

    Aaron and I met up at the office and made the relatively short drive over to the stadium in Nashville.  I had heard for years that the pro football games lacked the intensity of college football, so I was pleasantly surprised to find that there wasn’t any shortage of excitement around the stadium… the fans were out BIG TIME.

After walking around for a couple of minutes, we caught up with our friends and headed inside.  Now, Aaron had actually been to a couple Titans games before, so I think he had an idea of what we were in for when they said “VIP treatment”, I on the other hand had no clue.  After having had the “VIP treatment” though, I can tell you with all certainty that if you’re going to go to a pro football game… this is how you do it!  We were setup with an executive suite to watch the game from; complete with all the food you can eat, all the drinks you drink, and of course, a pretty darn good view of the action on the field.  Oh… and if you happened to miss something (like the tons of bad calls the refs were throwing down), there were a couple of big screen TVs to catch the replays on.  Now THIS is sweet!

    At the end of the day the Titans barely lost to the Houston Texans, 34 to 31, but there was no shortage of entertainment.  I’m also pretty comfortable saying that there was just as much intensity and passion with these football fans as any I’ve run into at the college games in Neyland Stadium here in Knoxville.  I don’t think they could have gotten any louder (and thankfully so because you would probably be well served with some ear plugs as is!).  Aaron and I had a great time and it was definitely a fun experience!  Thanks again Jay and Ashby for the invite!!

– Dan Thompson

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    So it is time for yet another Albino Bowler adventure, this time to the last AC/DC concert of the Black Ice Tour!  We all loaded up into my brother’s car at around 12:30pm on Saturday and prepared for the 2 and a half hour drive to Nashville.  Before we left, I took a picture of The Albino Bowler’s fan club sheet.

    Once we got to Nashville, we met my aunt at her hotel (she flew down from Maryland) and decided it was time to get something to eat.  We had a Japanese steakhouse in mind.  Once we got to the restaurant, we found out that it didn’t open for another hour.  We decided to just go park at the concert hall and find another restaurant to eat at.  Thanks to my handy Blackberry Curve, I was able to find a sushi bar 2 blocks from where we needed to go to see AC/DC.
    We sat down at Koto Sushi Bar, ordered 2 rolls of sushi and some Japanese food.  The meal was delicious and we decided to try some desert.  The Albino Bowler decided to try some mochi ice cream (rice ice cream).  It was actually pretty good compared to how it looked.  Next it was off to the concert!

    We walked into the Sommet Center and found our seats.  We were only about 10 feet away from the stage! The opening band was named “The Answer”.  They were pretty good, the lead singer had a very unique voice.  After

they were finished, AC/DC took the stage.  They played all of their most popular songs.  As soon as they came out on stage, fireworks started going off all over the place.  They opened with “Back in Black”, which is one of my favorite songs.  They also played “Whole Lotta Rosie”, “Hells Bells”, “TNT”, “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap”, and “War Machine”.  I took out The Albino Bowler whenever Angus Young (Lead Guitar) or Brian Johnson (Lead Vocals) got close to our side of the stage and tried to get a decent picture.  Sorry about the fuzziness on the pictures, it wasn’t easy to get both in focus.

     The show ended and AC/DC went off stage.  Everyone started cheering for an encore so they came back out and did “For Those About to Rock”, accompanied by firing cannons off the stage.  Overall, it was an awesome show and I hope they are able to do another tour.  We managed to escape the mobs of people coming out of the show and made it home in 2 and a half hours.

Till Next Time!

– Zac Mckinney

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