Tuesday, October 2nd, 2012

I've got a little time this afternoon to blog... my schedule at work is just so slow today for some reason! 

Anyways one thing that I enjoy doing that I wanted to highlight here in my blog is keeping track of the previous sporting events that I have been to.  This should come as no surprise if you keep track of my blog anyways... it's mostly about sports or food :)

The way I keep track of all of my past sporting event attendance is through: www.espn.go.com/travel/passport

It's a fun thing that you can sign up for through ESPN which allows you to accumulate statistics on the different teams which you have seen play.  Things like their record vs each other, points allowed, points for, etc, for any given season or all time.  I'll just go into a little detail here to show how some of my most often watched teams have done...

College Football:

• Iowa State: 16 wins, 6 losses
• 599 points for, 422 points against... it also breaks it down between each season
• They were 6-1 when I was at the games in 2002 (the days of Seneca Wallace)
• Colorado: 0 wins, 3 losses
• 54 points for, 78 points against (all 3 vs ISU... 2005, 07, and 09)
• Iowa: 1 win, 2 losses (games against ISU... 2005, 07, 09)
• Nebraska: 0 wins, 2 losses (games against ISU in 2002, 04)
• Texas Tech: 1 win, 1 loss (2002 and 2012 against ISU)
• Kansas: 0 wins, 2 losses (2002 and 2011 against ISU)

Men's College Basketball:

• Iowa State: 13 wins, 2 losses
• 1,124 points for and 932 points against
• Oklahoma in 2003 & Drake last year were the team's I've seen ISU lose to
• Texas: 0 wins, 2 losses (2004 & 2012 against ISU)
• Kansas State: 0 wins, 2 losses (2003 & 2012 against ISU)
• Northern Iowa: 0 wins, 1 loss (2006 against ISU)

MLB:

• Minnesota Twins are 2-1 when I've seen them... 1-1 at home and 0-1 on the road
• Chicago Cubs are 2-2... 1-1 at home, 0-1 on the road, and 1-0 at neutral site (spring training)

So that is just a quick look at most the teams that I have seen play more than once.  I've also seen some NBA games, but I didn't bother to list them here.  I really wish that it would also keep track of women's college basketball, but for some reason it doesn't.  So just for my memory I wanted to list the few ISU women's games that I have seen...

• 3/18/2001 - Iowa State 85, Florida State 70 (NCAA tournament game)
• 2/5/2005 - Iowa State 73, Texas 69
• 12/11/2011 - Iowa State 77, Mississippi Valley State 47

Hopefully I can make it to a women's game for this upcoming season as well.