the Gaelic Football Game

--b and I and others went to watch a Gaelic football game in Cork last Sunday. The game was the province final and county Cork was playing county Kerry. Gaelic Football is like soccer, football, and rugby with a couple of new rules. It is only played in Ireland. The game starts off with everyone singing the national anthem but everyone turns toward the score boards on either side of the field to sing. We got a standing spot behind one of the goals and that ended up being where the hard core fans where.
Cork was the underdog coming into the game and it was clear in the first half that Kerry was beating them. They were definitely outplaying them.
At the starting of the second half, Cork stepped it up a notch and scored a goal and started to make a comeback. The crowd was going crazy. Everyone was screaming and yelling and cheering. Cork eventually tied it up and then started winning and creating a gap in their favour. Cork ended up winning the game. It was so fantastic.
It poured all morning before the game and as soon as the game started, the rain stopped and at half time, it started pouring again and rained the entire half time and stopped raining during the second half and started raining and poured the rest of the day after the game. We were all soaked and my clothes took two days to dry.