I don't think that I would be a true BYU fan if I did not blog about my wonderful experience yesterday, culminating in an exciting victory over a face-punching Utah.
What can I say, I love BYU and have always been a huge fan. So when BYU and Utah go head to head you know that I will be there. Now that doesn't mean that I am going to wait in a tent for a week to get a good seat. But if that's your style, good for you, I can respect that, you really really want a good seat and are willing to be cold for a week to get it. I on the other hand just love being in the student section and feeling the energy of the other true cougar fans. I love the cheers, the chants, the fight song, and just going crazy when Jimmer drains a 3 or BYU gets a sweet dunk.
So even though I won't wait a week for a good seat, being a little closer is always better, so my friend and I were out there in front of the Marriott center at one o'clock to soak in the pre-game atmopsphere and play some games in line while we waited for others of our group to arrive, and more importantly, to wait for our chance to cheer on the cougars to another glorious victory. The wait was well worth it. After a few hours sitting on a blanket with a hand-warmer that refused to warm we finally got our chance to rush through the doors and grab our well-earned seat in the student section.
For those of you who saw the game there is no need for me to give a recap because it was unforgettable. For those of you who didn't see it you need to, so I won't recap it for you either, that is what ESPN.com is for. I will however point you to the link I will post (if I can figure out how) to the youtube video that shows a Utah player showing a bit of "classlessness" and punching Jackson Emery in the face. But know this, it was a spectacular game, an awesomely exciting win, and best of all a win over the Utes! What else needs to be said? GO COUGARS!!
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Murder in the Dark
Okay well last week I as going to tell you about an awesome new game that I played called Murder in the Dark. But because I can easily get off tangent I spent time talking (or blogging...whatever) about games in general. At the end of last week's blog I promised that this week I would repent and talk about my new favorite game, so here it goes.
Murder in the Dark has that familiar flavor of your other night games but it is a lot more exciting. The basic premise of the game is that there is one murderer (it can be done with two) and he/she wants to kill everyone while the other players want to stay alive while trying to catch the murderer. To start the game you draw pieces of paper, one of which has an X, to decide who the murderer is (the one who picks the paper with the X). You then turn off all the lights in the house (yes, all of them, thus the name murder in the DARK) and scatter. You can hide, you can simply wander, or do whatever, but be wary because the whole time the murderer is trying to find someone or someones to kill. He/she does this by sneaking up and passing their hand across the victims neck, the victim must then collapse to the floor without a sound. The murderer may then try to stash the body if he/she so sees fit. This goes on until someone comes across a body or witnesses a murderer. When this happens witness screams and turns the lights on. The survivors then vote who they think the culprit is and kill them (not literally please). If they killed the murderer the game ends, if not it continues.
The reason I like this game so much is because it feels very real. You know that nothing can happen but you are still afraid of everyone that comes near you because they could be wanting to kill you. If you are the murder it is fun because you have to be sneaky and kill without being seen and if you are seen you must kill the witnesses before they can raise the alarm. All in all a very enjoyable way to spend an evening with friends. So now I just solved the problem for what each of you are going to do this next weekend. Don't worry the weekend will come fast.
So that's it for this time. Tune in next time and I will talk (blog) about.....something, don't worry it will be cool. Have a great week!
Murder in the Dark has that familiar flavor of your other night games but it is a lot more exciting. The basic premise of the game is that there is one murderer (it can be done with two) and he/she wants to kill everyone while the other players want to stay alive while trying to catch the murderer. To start the game you draw pieces of paper, one of which has an X, to decide who the murderer is (the one who picks the paper with the X). You then turn off all the lights in the house (yes, all of them, thus the name murder in the DARK) and scatter. You can hide, you can simply wander, or do whatever, but be wary because the whole time the murderer is trying to find someone or someones to kill. He/she does this by sneaking up and passing their hand across the victims neck, the victim must then collapse to the floor without a sound. The murderer may then try to stash the body if he/she so sees fit. This goes on until someone comes across a body or witnesses a murderer. When this happens witness screams and turns the lights on. The survivors then vote who they think the culprit is and kill them (not literally please). If they killed the murderer the game ends, if not it continues.
The reason I like this game so much is because it feels very real. You know that nothing can happen but you are still afraid of everyone that comes near you because they could be wanting to kill you. If you are the murder it is fun because you have to be sneaky and kill without being seen and if you are seen you must kill the witnesses before they can raise the alarm. All in all a very enjoyable way to spend an evening with friends. So now I just solved the problem for what each of you are going to do this next weekend. Don't worry the weekend will come fast.
So that's it for this time. Tune in next time and I will talk (blog) about.....something, don't worry it will be cool. Have a great week!
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Game Night
Welcome back to another exciting week of "Rolling Along with a Theurer!" If you are reading this post it means one of three things: you saw my post last week and actually liked it, you have to because you are in my MCOM class, or I used the friend/family card and you are reading this so I don't feel bad.
BYU is a very unique university. Normally when you think of a university and what the students do there for fun the first things that come to mind are alcohol, women, crazy partied, and other not-so-good activities. Here at BYU alcohol isn't as popular (I Hope) so we find other ways to entertain ourselves. One of the most common ways to pass the time with your friends on weekends is to have a game night. It is ont uncommon at these game nights to hear people suggest Mafia, Ninja destruction, catch phrase, card games, signs, and a variety of others. I myself just returned from a thrilling game of Mafia where my fellow non-Italian mafia and I succeeded in killing all the poor townspeople while only loosing one of your non-Italian mafia friends. If you have ever played mafia I hope you're impressed.
So yea, I originally started this tangent because I wanted to tell you about my new favorite game night game, Murder in the Dark, but since I have already gone on long enough I will ask that you contain yourselves and patiently wait till next week (I know that hard that will be for some of you). So tune in next time as we roll along with a Theurer (that's me) I promise you won't be disappointed.
BYU is a very unique university. Normally when you think of a university and what the students do there for fun the first things that come to mind are alcohol, women, crazy partied, and other not-so-good activities. Here at BYU alcohol isn't as popular (I Hope) so we find other ways to entertain ourselves. One of the most common ways to pass the time with your friends on weekends is to have a game night. It is ont uncommon at these game nights to hear people suggest Mafia, Ninja destruction, catch phrase, card games, signs, and a variety of others. I myself just returned from a thrilling game of Mafia where my fellow non-Italian mafia and I succeeded in killing all the poor townspeople while only loosing one of your non-Italian mafia friends. If you have ever played mafia I hope you're impressed.
So yea, I originally started this tangent because I wanted to tell you about my new favorite game night game, Murder in the Dark, but since I have already gone on long enough I will ask that you contain yourselves and patiently wait till next week (I know that hard that will be for some of you). So tune in next time as we roll along with a Theurer (that's me) I promise you won't be disappointed.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
My first blog!
Well thanks for visiting my blog. At first glance the name of this blog might seem a little strange to people who don't know me personally (or people who know me but don't know how to pronounce my last name). My name is Mike Theurer and that weird looking last name is actually pronounced TIRE, yes, like a car tire (thus the rolling along pun).
I never envisioned myself getting into blogging, much less making my own. But for my MCOM 320 class at BYU one of our assignments is to create a blog and write in it every week. At first I had my doubts and wasn't too excited about the assignment. But after much pondering and self reflection (and realizing that I had to do it for a grade) I realized that maybe blogging won't be so bad after all (this is where you let out a shocked gasp... it's okay... no need to be shy).
Well there you have it, my fist blog entry. I hope that you will join me in my blogging adventure and will come back to see where this all goes. As the title says this is Rolling along with a Theurer (remember Theurer=Tire) so we are just gonna roll along and talk about whatever happens to be interesting me at the moment. So stay tuned!
I never envisioned myself getting into blogging, much less making my own. But for my MCOM 320 class at BYU one of our assignments is to create a blog and write in it every week. At first I had my doubts and wasn't too excited about the assignment. But after much pondering and self reflection (and realizing that I had to do it for a grade) I realized that maybe blogging won't be so bad after all (this is where you let out a shocked gasp... it's okay... no need to be shy).
Well there you have it, my fist blog entry. I hope that you will join me in my blogging adventure and will come back to see where this all goes. As the title says this is Rolling along with a Theurer (remember Theurer=Tire) so we are just gonna roll along and talk about whatever happens to be interesting me at the moment. So stay tuned!
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