Royalty is going to get a Rocky Mountain High at the end of February!

Here's the game plan:

The King & I are flying to Denver, Colorado on Delta Airlines. We leave New York LaGuardia Airport on Friday, February 26th at 8:10AM Eastern Time, we arrive in the Mile High City at 11:03AM Mountain Time.

Upon arrival, I'm renting a car from Payless Car Rental for the weekend.

We'll be meeting up with a special lady named Meg Minard who lives in the Denver area. We met her in August when we went to Seattle for the Ballpark Chaser Meet Up. I told her we were planning to come to visit her in late February. True to my word, we are. We're looking forward to seeing her again. 

We fly back home on the red eye early Tuesday morning, March 1st. Our flight departs Denver at 12:20AM Mountain Time. After a brief layover in Atlanta, we're scheduled to land at 8:14AM Eastern Time at LaGuardia Airport if all goes well.    

Friday February 26th Alaska Aces at Colorado Eagles 7:05PM Mountain Time
                              
Saturday February 27th Red Wings at Avalanche at Coors Field 6PM Mountain Time Stadium Series
                     
Sunday February 28th Arizona State Sun Devils at Colorado Buffaloes 2:30PM Mountain Time

Monday February 29th Grizzlies at Nuggets 7PM Mountain Time

If you're interested in going on this exclusive getaway royalty style just let me know so I can arrange to have you join us.

It's going to be a blast so why not come for a "royal" ride.

Thank you for reading and following along.

Yours truly,

Gary Herman

Royalty finally sees the Kansas State Wildcats win!

Dot and I

After the volleyball game we saw, we walked back to Dot's car and we had a little tailgate party. She brought burgers and hot dogs and we cooked them and we ate.

After eating, we headed over to the Bill Snyder Family Stadium, home of the K-State Wildcats.
Thanks to Scott Garrett, the assistant athletic director who arranged to get me a $10 ticket for the game which was right next to Dot's in section 8 row 45.

I want to personally thank Scott for being so accomodating. That turned out to be a very wise decision since the game was sold out. Dot said she hadn't seen the stadium that full in a few years. All the benches were filled up with people all dressed up in purple. The fans brought their pride and passion with them.

It was a great experience for me finally getting the Wildcat off my back.

I've seen the Wildcats on the road back in October 2002 in Boulder, Colorado but they lost to the Buffaloes that day in an exciting game, 35-31. More recently at Yankee Stadium I was at the Pinstripe Bowl that Dorothy and her Mom came in for last December and they fell short to Syracuse, 36-28.

This time they were playing the Eastern Kentucky Colonels at home. The question was with me in the house would they be able to "pop" the colonels.

For most of the game it looked dim. The game was scoreless into the third quarter. The Colonels finally got on the scoreboard to take a 7-0 lead. The Wildcats cut the lead to 7-3. Despite committing five turnovers the Wildcats put themselves in position to win the game. They wound up scoring a touchdown with 1:39 left to take the lead at 10-7. They wound up holding on for the slim victory as I escaped Manhattan with a W.

It was a thrill to be there. In matter of fact, we wound up sitting by some young people. One of which was a young man named Josh Allen. Josh and I spoke during the game and he said he's been a football Giant fan since he was 4 years old. I hope he gets to come to NYC some day so I can arrange to take him to a Giant game. He goes to school in Minnesota at a school called Bethany he said.

Stay tuned as the next installment of my heartland getaway continues.

Thank you for reading and following along.

Yours truly,

Gary Herman

Future NFL Stars shine in Stillwater!

On November 19, 2009, Royalty joined forces with our friends and fellow road trippers Andrew Kulyk & Peter Farrell, better known as USRT, the Ultimate Sports Road Trip.

This was another memorable and educational experience for all of us.

We all spend that weekend in different parts of Texas and Oklahoma.

We met at the car rental center at the Dallas airport.

We both wound up renting cars from Alamo.

I arranged to hook us both up with a great deal.

We followed each other for most of the ride to Stillwater, Oklahoma, home of the Oklahoma State Cowboys.

That night they played in prime time against another Big 12 foe, the Colorado Buffaloes.

As for the game, it was a very competitive see saw battle which the Cowboys came back to win, 31-28!

As for the NFL draft, we did get to see a few players who were drafted. In addition, we missed a few as well.

Here are the details regarding the players who were selected.

They are as follows:

With the 6th pick in the draft, the Seattle Seahawks selected offensive lineman, Russell Okung.
Later in the 1st round, the Dallas Cowboys took wide receiver Dez Bryant with the 24th pick. He was projected to go higher.

Unfortunately for us he had been suspended so we didn't have the privilege of seeing him shine before our very eyes that night.

Perrish Cox, a cornerback was taken by the Denver Broncos in the 5th round with the 137th overall pick.

In that game, he ran back a punt 67 yards for a touchdown.

In the 7th round with 250th pick in the draft the New England Patriots selected Zac Robinson, their starting quarterback.

We didn't see him play either because he was out of this game due to an injury.

Regardless we all made the most of our visit to the college town of Stillwater.