Halloween is so much more fun for grown-ups
This year for Halloween, I was ASU senior quarterback Rudy Carpenter at his worst, complete with a boot on my "sprained" left ankle and mud and grass stains on my arms and legs. I also added in some essentials like his pushed-up hairdo and wrist tattoos.
And toward the end of the night, before I ditched my costume I staged a re-enactment of a ridiculously good (and ridiculously depressing) photo that Arizona Republic photographer Rob Schumacher caught during last week's loss to Oregon:
You know, I've often derided Carpenter's seemingly baseless optimism even if the face of a five-game losing streak — comments like, "We have a chance to still accomplish all the things we want to." But maybe Rudy's right and all our wildest dreams can come true. Let's hope that's as much the case in Corvallis tomorrow as it was in Chandler tonight:
