QPR vs. the Sheep Shaggers

GO RANGERS!

I am forever changed and I owe it all to the Queen's Park Rangers. Granted, they are an English equivalent to the Sacramento Rivercats in terms of sports abilities and prestige. But they play good football dammit! See how violent I am now? It's because of QPR.

Our day of football frenzy started at the Walkabout a pub with a male to female ratio of 30:1

I have never felt so terrified entering a building before. Hundreds of rabid football fans boozing it up and singing incomprehensible songs and chants, I was definitely not in Kansas anymore. I found the sane American group huddled in the back of the pub, and after a few Stellas I began to feel pretty rowdy myself. The Walkabout is a bar/pub with Australian roots which really excited the guys in our group because then they could order kangaroo burgers. Om nom?

I was really excited because my friend Emma bought bright blue sparkly eyeliner. We could truly be QPR fans/ravers now.

Glitter burns

Eyeliner on, creepy Cardiff fans avoided and beers finished, it was game time.

The group met Mike outside the pub with two groups of other U.S. students (he's cheating on us!!!!) I think the Seattle students might of terrified the Virginians and Minnesotans with our face paint and eyeliner. We were so pumped, I believe we owe such intensity it to having a pretty lackluster football team back in the States. But it wasn't just that, the energy was electric and I noticed that I was insanely excited about a team I had never even heard of until a few days ago! Football is just a whole different entity over here!

So the backstory on QPR is that they were founded in 1882 and have only won the league cup once, in 1967...these guys have been underdogs for quite some time now.

The game was so exhilarating. I learned numerous new cuss words and the charming chant the entire stadium screamed at the Cardiff fans: SHEEP SHEEP SHEEP SHAGGERS!!!!

True wit, I must say it riled the Welsh up and we had a laugh at the idiotic shirtless fans being restrained by security.

Yes we lost, 0 to 1, bollocks. But QPR will live on and I am now a fan of football

I wasn't kidding about the face paint