Scruff McGruff

A few weeks ago Bryant and a few of his law school buddies decided that they were going to put together an intramural basketball team. Their awesome name? "The Officious Intermeddlers." (Apparently the team captain read it in one of their cases and got a kick out of it.)

So yesterday was their second game of the season. 9 AM on a Saturday. (Awful, huh?) Bryant left the house around 8:30 and I slept until 10:30. (I definitely should win the "Most Supportive Wife of the Year" Award.) While Bryant and one of his teammates were checking in, the girl at the table informed both of them that they could not play due to their facial hair. If anyone has ever seen Bryant then you would know that the little facial hair he does have, you have to be in the right light to even see it.Do you see the scruff? No. No you don't. But what you don't realize is this a pretty scruffy picture of Bryant.

(Sometimes I tell Bryant he looks like Spencer Pratt in hopes that he'll get offended and shave. It doesn't work.)

Bryant and his teammate kindly asked the girl if she was joking, to which she responded that she was not and that they could play if they hurried and shaved. (Later Bryant told me he was thinking, "Yeah, I brought my toiletries bag along just incase I needed to shave before I played basketball on a Saturday morning!")

The two of them scurried over to the BYU Bookstore in hopes of buying a razor there, but it was closed. Finally they went back to the gym and the wife of one of the other players ended up having an electric razor in her car and she was kind enough to let them borrow it. They ended up missing 10 minutes of the game, and the game resulted in a tie. --That's after someone on Bryant's team slammed the ball and was issued a "Yellow Card", forced to sit out, and the team had to finish the game 4-on-5. (What is this? Soccer? Hockey? Since when is there a penalty box in basketball?!)

Since we've moved to Happy Valley I've been trying to have a positive attitude about BYU. I figure we have to be here for 3 years so I may as well enjoy it. But after walking around the student center and seeing just how much weirder the students are, going to the BYU-USU mens basketball game and having to deal with their obnoxious fans, and now the whole "beard" fiasco...Uggh. It's awful. Just AWFUL!

Cache Valley, (specifically the Sports Academy for Bryant)-- We miss you!