College Football Hall of Fame

Our last big stop on the trip was at the College Football Hall of Fame. We actually didn't know it was even in South Bend but, once we heard, we figured we might as well check it out while we were there.

This field was outside the building and it was really nice turf where you could have your own little game. There was actually audio recordings playing outside of old football games too to make it a pretty neat atmosphere! Right inside the window, there was 25 school pennants hanging up in the order that national championship voting finished for the 2008 season; they update it each year with the most recent finishes.
We weren't sure what to expect because on the ground level, all there is a information desk, gift shop, and little sandwich restaurant. You couldn't tell how big it was or anything but it turned out the entire museum was in the basement level....

These people were inside a mini stadium they had where they had a short video of football history highlights...
Of course I had to take a picture of the training and sports medicine because that's where I spent a great deal of my college career...

The museum was very very cool. We could have spent a couple days in there with all there is to read but we spent 2 or 3 hours checking everything out. It would be definitely fun to go again and read even more! It was filled with so much history!

There was also a little training center where you could do a bunch of different skills and then, depending on your score, could determine whether you were "All-American" status all the way down to "water boy"....


This display had the most recent bowl game results...

This is just a small view of the inside of the museum. It twists and turns through different time periods and all of the gold colored plaques are All-American award winner.
We were lucky that we went on a Sunday morning when there wasn't a football game or anything much going on in town because we were the only two people in the museum for about 95% of the time we were there! That way, when I got loud or Mikel yelled for me to come look at something we weren't disturbing anyone!

As we were driving home we decided to take another scenic route and we were driving through a little town and all the sudden there was a college! It was really small and so we pulled over and drove around the tiny campus (in about 5 minutes) where there seemed to be as many dorm buildings as classrooms. We looked it up when we got home and it is a small Methodist school that competes in NAIA athletics.

Spring break has been great and I'm just trying to get myself a little ahead before school starts again on Monday. I've done lots of grading, worked on research projects, and started thinking about some papers that are due later in the semester. We've also had time to relax a lot and explore a little more! Mikel is still enjoying work and making some friends there. He's starting to get a few more hours too which is nice. (Who wouldn't want him working for them??)