I had to roll out the rack at 9 am to watch a horribly boring Michigan win over Miami of Ohio. The highlight of the game was the Papa John's guy coming to the door. Papa John's is essentially Little Caesars. Just more expensive, but nonetheless, great.

So we did that and got ready to hit San Jose for the day. San Jose, or more specifically, Santa Clara....amazing. Modern and clean, and beautiful.

We went to this monstrous mall to kill time. It's the biggest mall I have ever been in. Fancy stores that I can't even pronounce the name of filled one entire wing of the mall. It was like the Palace Shops at Caesar's in Vegas.

After that we went to a place called C.J's, a sports bar right off the UC Santa Clara campus. We, or I, watched the USA/Cuba soccer game while Tinny played MegaTouch...best part....I met some fellas who KNEW THEIR SHIT. We talked about the U.S National Team and why Kenny Cooper should at least get a shot over Eddie Johnson, much less Brian Ching. We discussed the new ownership at Manchester City...all things I am sure you are concerned with. It was phenomenal. I was loving it.

...worst mascot ever


From there we went to the San Jose Earthquakes vs. D.C United soccer game on the ridiculously modernized UC Santa Clara campus. San Jose won, and again, I fell in love. The younger fellow behind me was wearing a freaking NEW Tottenham jersey (in English soccer they literally change their new jerseys every season...seriously). So this was the NEW 2008/09 away Tottenham jersey....We talked about the three Spurs games this season and how gutted we were at the start of the season. Talked about the new additions. talked about the Aston Villa game on the 15th, and I sat down with an erection that was induced by actually speaking to Americans who knew their shit about the Premier League.

San Jose won the game, we drove home through Silicon Valley and it is now bed time.