Saturday, December 15, 2007

St. Paul's Chaple in Iowa City




St. Paul’s Lutheran Chapel: College Football Lives Here.

On a crisp November day, flag clad Hawkeye warriors crossed the Willow Creek, to face one another in the college gridiron classic known as Luther Bowl.

This year marked the seventh annual game, which has from its modest beginnings of a back yard football game to the greatest of all college football contests, complete with two officials and no commercial interruptions.

This year’s game was a real slobber-knocker. On both sides of the ball the Big-Uglies made it their business to bring the wood. Each team exploited the other’s defense via trick plays including the Statue of Liberty, the Fumblerooski, and the old “run-two-steps-beyond-the-next-cone-and-I’ll-throw-you-the-ball-play.

At the final gun the score was 35 to 28 and the food was ready. The players, officials and spectators, both of them, hit the training table in preparation for Luther Bowl VIII.