THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL teams of Penn State and UCF are bound for Dublin next August when they meet in the Croke Park Classic.
Last night they met in Beaver Stadium in State College, Pennsylvania with UCF winning out 34-31.
But what is a U.S. college football game day experience like?
Here’s the Penn State team’s arrival at Beaver Stadium.
YouTube: Fintan O’Toole
And here’s some snapshots from the game day:
Fans wait for the Penn State team
Penn State fans gather in Beaver Stadium
Penn State players enter the pitch
Penn State warm-up 1
Penn State fans banners 1
Penn State fans banners 2
Penn State warm-up 2
Fans stream into Beaver Stadium
The Penn State Blue Band before the game
First-half - Penn State v UCF
The Penn State Blue Band at half-time
Second-half - Penn State v UCF
Penn State cheerleaders after the game
Penn State Blue Band after the game
Cork-born UCF kicker Sean Galvin
UCF Coach George O'Leary with fans
Beaver Stadium after the game
Eric Cantona has to be on that list surely?!
Everyone of them had a good reason to retire. Mortimers one was his ego
Former Ipswich Town goalkeeper Shane Supple retired at the age of 22. He said at the time he had fallen out of love with the game.
Conor Mortimer’s retirement shocking? Nothing shocking about what a guy with such a big ego could do. He had often thrown his toys out of his pram before that. James Horan was delighted to see him go and played a part in it and Mayo have been better off since. I don’t think there was any phone call to him to try persuade him to change his mind. Mortimer was not that liked by his fellow county players and didn’t get on great with his fellow students in DCU. Most thought he was a sh1te
Conor Mortimer between Magic Johnson and Jordan !!
Muamba was hardly going to keep playing
To those who plead “Oh but what about this guy and that guy, Cantona and Bjorg?!”
The headline says 6 shocking retirements, not ALL shocking retirements so chill out.
Cantona was
What about Bjorn Borg.
Get Conor Mortimer out of this list.
Magic Johnson retired in November 1991 but was in the USA “Dream Team” for the 92 Olympics so it wasn’t much of a retirement
Martina Hingis retired at 23 to pursue a “media” career, only to be banned for cocaine abuse a few years later after a return to the sport.
Alan Hansen could have played on