One Last Purdue Football Game This Year

Normally I save these posts for gameday, but this gameday will be right at the start of my Christmas days on the blog. It is hard to believe, but my football season ends this weekend. I set a goal at the start of the year to photograph as much football as I could this year. It has been thirty years since my last time playing the game so I wanted to get out there and soak in as much of it as I could. I think that I did that this year. I photographed more of it than I have in many years. This weekend is one last chance to photograph a game that I love. Football season is always a weird one. You only have so many chances to make photos. Far fewer than most sports that I cover regularly. I try and treat each opportunity as a special one because of that. This one is for the bucket so it is always special. For the first time in a while I will photograph the bucket regardless of who wins it. That is a good feeling going into gameday. No matter what I will have celebration photos this week.

Fifteen Years Ago

It is hard to believe that it has been fifteen years since Coach Tiller coached his final game at Purdue. It was a lopsided win against Indiana. That was a fun and emotional day. Instead of leaving our seats after the game was over we stayed and watched Coach Tiller soak up those last moments as the coach of the Boilers. Some of that has to be in mind this weekend as Purdue takes on IU again. Now the team comes out of the Tiller Tunnel. I always come up with some sort of theme for a football Saturday. It is a great way to tie my photos together with a common thread. This week I have a couple of themes, and one of them will be to get the Tiller Tunnel into as many photos as I can.