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Kickoff at 1:00 I was dressed and packed up as it was time to leave and everybody was ready to leave except for 1 person. It was Saturday, October 17, and we were leaving for Pittsburgh for the weekend and until Monday. It was my parents, brother and grandpa who were going to Pittsburgh. We were going to arrive on the same Saturday at about 5:30 pm and were going to some old friend’s house first and that was the worst part of the trip for me. When we were 20 minutes away my father said “We are going to Rick’s house first to visit them for the meantime, and then we’re going to the buffet restaurant to meet old friends for dinner.”

When we arrived, my parents talked to them about the last years they hadn't seen each other and all that kind
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I ate french toast, a pancake, bacon and fruit for breakfast. Our game’s kickoff was at 1:00 and my father, grandpa and me were going to see it live. We took about 15 minutes to get to the stadium. We had pretty good seats and the halftime score was low scoring and the Cardinals were winning 10-3. During halftime we went down to get Papa John’s pizza and some sodas and demanded “Can we get 2 cheese pizzas and 2 sodas, please.” When we were walking to our seats we noticed our quarterback (Michael Vick) wasn't on the field instead it was Landry Jones who played the rest of the game. It was a really exciting and nerve-wrecking game considering that we were up 18-13 and the Cardinals had the ball with 2:26 left in the game at our 20 yard line. It was 1st & 10 for them at our 20 yard line and then it was an attempt to get a touchdown Carson Palmer intended a touchdown pass to Smokey Brown and then bam! Intercepted by Mike Mitchell and then he got a little bit hurt but was okay. Afterwards we had the ball with 2:15 left in the game when the QB completed a pass to Bryant in our own 22 yard line and ran and juked every defensive player. That's how Bryant put a close to it with exactly 2:00 left in the game by scoring a touchdown from an incredible run. My grandpa and me screamed very happily and the whole stadium was celebrating and going wild. For my father, grandpa, and me the only thing that

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