Quote from: CarollFan on October 29, 2024, 07:56:35 PMWe're familiar with area

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Thank you Normal Community.
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Holy cow, I missed my ONE CHANCE to comment on my local area.  Yes, I live in Normal..;-)

What a crazy, crazy game.

Wheaton 36, Wash U 35 on the final 2 point conversion...

Quote from: 79jaybird on October 02, 2023, 03:40:40 PM
yes.  Like the Bears Elmhurst found a way to grab defeat from the jaws of victory. 

In all seriousness (yes, this is my once a year post) being both a Wheaton and Bears fan made for a painful weekend...

Quote from: kiko on November 13, 2021, 05:17:26 PM
Today:

Wheaton 49, Millikin 7 in America's most desired metropolis

For my once yearly post, I was in this 'most desired metropolis' today for an unrelated reason and randomly drove past the game.  Resisted the temptation to roll down the windows and scream 'Go Thunder' as I zoomed by.  Pretty much assumed they didn't need my help.

But today Decatur didn't smell like Decatur...so that's a huge plus.

I could only tell you places to eat from 28 years ago, the vast majority of which are gone now.  Now if it were IWU at home (since I live in Bloomington now) I could give some advice.

But if you hit Chicago and don't go to a real pizza place...well..missed opportunities.  Portillo's is good too for Italian Beef and other Chicago favorites and I assume there's still one on North Ave.

So, ignorant question, but I'm not much into D3 outside the general Midwest area...

But now I find myself watching a game in California for..reasons. 

Which team should I want to win in prep for next week for Wheaton?

Wow, was planning to go to the Wheaton game today, but due to the weather I didn't do the 2 hour drive.  Which allowed me to watch the Wheaton AND North Central games.  What a day!

Swider is a great guy, and was a great teacher when I was at Wheaton.  He didn't even razz me too hard when waking me up after class and everyone else had already left.  Stupid movies.

But on the plus side, the weather is infinitely better than last weekend.

Quote from: Titan Q on September 21, 2019, 09:33:14 PM

And Wheaton has a strong defense.  IWU's offense is pretty elite and the Titans could not move the ball tonight.

Now if we could just cough up the ball carelessly a bit less.  I was kinda scared in the first half, but with the rain somehow Wheaton got better at holding onto it.

Quote from: 79jaybird on October 05, 2018, 09:04:44 AM
41+ years of marriage?  Wow!  Congrats!  That is awesome.  Mrs. Jaybird and I will hit 10 years this coming June.  My girls are into swimming and hockey (through no influence of her hockey goalie dad    )   so perhaps one of the CCIW schools for swimming and Lake Forest, Adrian, or one of the UW schools for hockey.   At 8 & 6 still a LONG way away.

As a Wheatie I've been married to an IWU Titan for 20 years.  We missed our yearly 'go see the big game' because I was sick this year, but the Titans made me cry two years in a row..;-/

I walked out to my car in Bloomington/Normal and it was a bit of rain with some sleet.  Not 2 minutes later there were snowflakes that looked actually painful.  Stayed inside.

Quote from: Mugsy on October 01, 2017, 08:57:48 PM
Play that no one is talking about, but hurts from a Wheaton perspective almost more than any was the dropped pass by Olateju.

In the 1st quarter at the 1:03 mark of the game video, Olateju blows past the LB straight up the seam and was 8 yards behind the LB, all alone.  The pass was right on his hands and he dropped a easy 73 yard TD pass.  I think he dropped at least 3 passes.

That play was an almost guaranteed touchdown.  And a couple plays before was another dropped.  It was painful.

And, of course, my wife has already started on the rubbing-it-in stage for this year.  Sitting on the IWU side, while much lower to the ground, was quite a bit cooler with the sun at our back.  But the Wheaton side was more fun.

And yeah, Wheaton should not have even let that drive be relevant.  Too many early dropped passes and absolutely pointless running plays.

Quote from: AndOne on September 26, 2017, 12:48:08 PM
gryfalia,

Do you and your better half have some type of wager on the game? Dinner at her or your fav place?

Honestly, it's basically a bragging rights wager.  You know the old 'and we crushed you guys last year' (regardless of the score differential).  It's basically a fun date for us, as back when we were in college she didn't care much about sports and, honestly, at the time Wheaton was more of a Soccer school.

Not that we knew each other then, but.. 

But here in Normal when you hear about sports it's either ISU or IWU, and usually Football, so it's easiest for us to go to those games.