As all of you know, the mighty
Wolfpack have been selected by George Foreman and
Meineke Auto to face off against the Southern Florida Bulls who incidentally will be playing in their first bowl game ever. Excited yet? It could be worse, you could have gone to chapel hill. The contest is scheduled for New Years Eve. This is where it gets better. New Years Eve falls on a Saturday this year. You'll have 1, possibly 2 full days to recover from any poor decisions you make during celebration(insert Cravin' Melon memory here). Also the contest is in Charlotte, NC so no plane flights or long drives. Uptown Charlotte (downtown to the transplants) has come along way from the days when St. John was shotgunning beers in high school. No it's a full fledged city now compete with nightlife and all. I'm sure they'll be quite a mess of people, many of them NC State grads ready to celebrate the New Year and also the possible Wolfpack victory. (I said possible- no need to jinx it).
Specifically the
Neighborhood Theater will be hosting the 2nd annual Avett Brothers New Years Eve Bash. My brother went last year and said it kicked ass. Cost is $20- a cheap cover for a quality band on this night of the year. I expect it to sell out soon. If you haven't seen these guys live you're missing out. They're a local band getting national attention for their bounce-around bluegrass/newgrass/rock. Bubba will be dancing his ass off. So click on the above link and buy tickets. If not, there's plenty of other stuff to do too.
Also,
my office is 6 blocks from the stadium. Parking will be cheap or possibly free. I can open the place up for the ladies to pee or if it rains. I thought this might make for an excellent place to meet up regardless of where people plan to stay or what they plan to do afterwards. Also i'm thinking of bringing a grill and cooking a little before hand and cooking a little afterwards. Beer will be prohibited. Damn you guys will believe anything. BYOB unless enough people speak up and then I'll get a keg or 2... Any takers?
As far as hotels go, they'll be more expensive that night then most. I would recommend staying Uptown. It'll cost more but by time you drive in, pay for a cab out and then get someone to bring you back in to get your car the next morning I imagine you might rather just stay close to the action. I've done this once before and it was very nice to be able walk back to a room and crash when I felt like it. The choice of course is yours. You can use this link,
HOTELS, to find something uptown.
I live about 20 miles from Uptown in Concord. Anyone who'd like is welcome to come and join us on Friday. I'll put up as many people as possible and the rest can sleep outside with the chickens or over at my brother's house. Believe it or not there are a couple of
cool places to go out within walking distance of my house.
If you think you're going to be in town for the game please let me know. I'll put the list together so maybe we can catch up while you're here. I hope not too many of you have gotten too old. I hope to see as many of you as possible.
Get excited, it's a football game.
Newton
