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Football

This Saturday, we took the boys to their first football game. A nail-biter between two collegiate powerhouses: Cornell at Columbia. Ok, collegiate powerhouses is an extreme exaggeration given that both teams entered Saturday's game with a 0-8 record. Yep, a combined 0 wins in 16 attempts. On the positive, one team HAD to win. Columbia's stadium is at the northern tip of Manhattan. We took the 1 train up to 215th street and then walked a quick 5 minutes to the stadium. The stadium is on the small side, but pretty nice. It reminded me of Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill - likely because Columbia's colors are virtually the same as Carolina's - though the blue is a bit lighter. The stadium has a great view of the Henry Hudson Bridge (seen above the visitor's side in the picture below). And, as a reminder that we're in Manhattan, there are train tracks for Amtrak and MetroNorth running very close to the athletic fields. It's not quite the same as the train at Ya