A quick story to bring us into our first graph …
I was at this game — rare for me, as I don’t live in the South anymore — but flew to Austin to brave the heat and see this one. The atmosphere was excellent; it’s a huge stadium like BDS, but has little touches that make it a kind of “desert coliseum,” with good views of both the field and the city.
The home crowd was loud — even before this game became, um, interesting — and the folks we encountered were amenable (at least when they weren’t being cranky about calls, and some of those feelings were likely deserved).