If anyone would have ever told me I would be looking through downtown for a box of BYU swag or getting excited about BYU football 10 years ago I would have laughed in their face and probably started singing the Aggies fight song. But as luck would have it we are now the proud owners of the BYU50 Fort Worth big blue box!
Right before football starts back up BYU goes around dropping these boxes all over the country and then posting a picture of where it is at. BYU fans from all over decked out in their BYU gear come running to find it. Last year we had some friends try to find it but missed it. This year my dad reminded me in the morning that they were going to be dropping in Texas that today. I was at a baby shower and laughed it off at first. Later that afternoon we were getting ready to head to Dallas for a b-day/pool party and thought we'd try and look around downtown while we were driving through. They had sent out a tweet saying that they were on their way to Fort Worth from Dallas, and then another saying that the Fort Worth drop had been delayed. So we really had no clue when they would actually drop the box. My two guesses were Sundance Square or the Water Gardens. We drove by Sundance and saw a few other people in BYU shirts waiting for the drop there. So we decided to head to the Water Gardens, all the while I kept refreshing my phone and switching back and forth between Twitter and Instagram waiting for their post. We were almost to the Water Gardens when all of a sudden we saw THE BOX! A guy in a BYU shirt was crossing the street to a parking lot on the other side of the Water Gardens and he had the box! Jason immediately stopped the car and I jumped out. The guy got into a mini van full of other people wearing BYU shirts. This meant one of two things either that dude just found the box before they ever posted the picture OR we just found the box before the picture got posted! I was about 15ft from the van while Jason parked and I kept refreshing my phone and just watching that mini van. All of a sudden this photo went up:
I ran across the street to this exact spot but there was no box. A group of other people also came running and when they didn't see the box they took off to the other side of the Water Gardens to look there. I started heading back across the street to just go talk to the people in the mini van and see if they had already won the box somehow or what was going on. On my way back across the street the same guy I saw earlier came walking over to me and said: "You Won!" I called Jason and had him get the boys and come over. I couldn't believe it! I couldn't stop laughing. Apparently that guy had taken the picture of the box but there were too many people standing around that he wanted to wait a bit before posting it, so he walked back across the street with the box, which is when we saw him!
There was a group of people that soon found us, and some were less than thrilled that we already had the box. Jason and I felt pretty out of place in our swimsuits while most everyone else had their BYU gear on. Some of these people had driven far and been waiting a long time. We were literally on our way out of town and just got lucky.
Jason and I couldn't stop laughing about our luck the rest of the day and for a few days after that actually. The box was packed full of tons of different stuff: jersey, signed picture, flag, blanket, socks, gloves, water bottle, and tons more.
Thanks BYU!
Utah State, hey, Aggies all the way!
Thanks BYU!
