Bus Rides

Overnight games are the best opportunity to really get to know your teammates. With a long bus ride about 8 hours long heading to St. Louis the possibilities of pranking each other, amount of storytelling and getting to know one another every high. Of course an 8 hour bus ride is not the ideal way to travel, but when you play division III football, sometimes you have to just go with the flow. Traveling wasn't too bad on the way, we stopped two times on the way to St. Louis for a bathroom break and at Indiana State University to have our normal Friday practice. On the bus ride you hear the usual jokes where upperclassmen tease the freshman that are fortunate to make the trip. Conversation is fun and loose, trying to enjoy the ride as much as possible through a cramped bus where there is very minimum leg room. Freshman are shocked to when we tell them all freshmen must sleep on the floor and they get leftovers at team meals but its just the usual newcomer pranks. Snapchat is blowing up with the endless amounts of pictures being taking and sent of teammates passed out on each other. A competition soon is formed to see who can snap the perfect picture of a teammate. All fun and games of course. The kickers on the team are the funniest of all. Passing through Indianapolis and and finally getting to St Louis was a great sight seeing place. View of the Lucas Oil Stadium and The Arch was pretty amazing. For guys from out of state it really is a first time even coming to a city like the ones we are driving to. Overall long trips have both ups ands downs, you get to bond with your teammates who most would consider your brothers. The games and movies played during the trio are always fun and then there are the times we get to mess with the rookies of the team and have little freshman initiations.