FromtheEditor
It’s a well-known fact amongst sports fans that the best seats in the house go to those backing the home team.
This is especially true at the beginning of football season when the sun is making the most of the end of summer and blasting triple digits all the way till sun set.
Sunglasses and umbrellas were the fashion for many Dublin fans at the scrimmage in Hamilton Friday.
Unfortunately, Wyndi and I were unfashionable. Even worse, Wyndi had decided to swipe my ‘Swiss Army’ sports shirt that references every sport imaginable. As a photographer hitting all sorts of events, it’s great to have gear referencing not only football and volleyball but cross country and powerlifting and everything in between.
It’s also black and nice, thick cotton that’s perfect for fall and winter.
One look at her reddening face and sour expression confirmed it wasn’t great for sweltering heat with no shade.
“Well, I needed to get a tan,” said our friend as she stretched out her legs.
I, meanwhile, tucked mine in the shadow of the person in front of me.
As I took pictures, we watched the JV and varsity Lions square up against the Bulldogs, but Wyndi also took up another pastime—looking for everyone wearing Dublin green instead ohfHamilton red on the shaded home side stands.
“Look, another defector!,” she would declare, before joking that she was going to go get something and might get sidetracked and accidentally sit in the wrong side.
To her credit as a Dublin fan starting her first season with the Citizen, that shirt never appeared on the other side. Both of our shirts hit the laundry immediately though.