{"id":800,"date":"2011-11-06T12:42:58","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T18:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/?p=800"},"modified":"2011-11-06T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T18:49:00","slug":"a-saturday-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/06\/a-saturday-in-austin\/","title":{"rendered":"A Saturday in Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DKR Stadium, Section 14, Row 1<\/p><\/div>\n

My mom and I were able to take Chris to a Texas football game this past weekend, which was pretty special given the stars that needed to align to make it possible.<\/p>\n

The UT athletics office very happily converted my two staff football tickets, along with a third ticket kindly donated by one of my co-workers, into three wheelchair-accessible seats.\u00a0 We weren’t quite sure how it was going to work out, bringing a large tilt-in-space wheelchair into a stadium of 100,000 people…\u00a0 but it did, and it was fantastic to have my family with me at a game again.\u00a0 The event staff and UTPD folks working the stadium were also incredibly friendly and helpful (I suppose they could tell we had no idea what we were doing).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Win or lose, this outing to Austin would have been a great time…\u00a0 Texas handily beating Texas Tech, though, was icing on the cake.<\/p>\n

There’s also nothing more powerful, more soul-stirring than singing The Eyes of Texas<\/em> at the end of a game with your brother, your fellow Longhorn, your wingman, your best friend.\u00a0 The good times come rushing back through the fog of the nightmare, if only briefly.<\/p>\n

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The 2005 Texas A&M game...<\/p><\/div>\n

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