I'm never allowed to go again
Oct. 12th, 2008 07:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeffxandraSo yesterday, while we were at Colorfest my aunt-in-law calls us and says, "Hey we've got an extra ticket for the Redskins game. Do you wanna go?"
Well my wife and I fretted back and forth for a few seconds before saying, "Sure, but we don't know who yet"
Y'see.. my wife is a big Redskins fan but she had arranged to have her mom and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
josabry come over to work on josabry's dress for wushi and beguine's pending nuptuals. Eventually we sort of let them decide for us. When we found out that her Aunt wasn't going (her Uncle was) then we decided to have me go. I donned a burgundy red cross blood drive shirt and headed out.
We got off a little late but enjoyed a sandwich in the parking lot and then walked up to the stadium and found our great seats, upper deck, 2nd row, right next to the camera well on the 50 yd line. Great seats. Things, at least in the lower section of the Upper Bowl, don't look tiny from up there. You can still easily read uni numbers and get a good sense of the action. Names are a little rough to pick up, but otherwise it's a lot like seeing a baseball game from the upper deck. If you get to the front, you'll likely have a better view than many in the lower levels will.
Then the game happened. It was an ugly, sloppy game, but it did have some good defense on occasion so I enjoyed myself, unlike many of the fans around me.
I know some really good, nay, great Redskins fans. Fans who know the game and the team and love both with equal vigor. I was not seated among those fans. These guys wouldn't know a good call from a bad call, couldn't spot the yardage change on any given play (the Redskins gained at least 5 yards on every offensive play according to them), and were the kind of people who needed those crazy fan-instructions they have on the Redskins' scoreboards.
If you've been to a Redskins game recently, they have these prompts for when to get loud (while the Skins are on defense) and when to stay quiet (while the Skins are on.. y'know.. if I have to explain this you probably stopped reading a while ago). Anyway they use some clips from the most recent Madden football game with LaRon Landry inciting the crowd and Jason Campbell encouraging the crowd to quiet down.
Incidentally, Campbell never actually does this during the game, indeed its his offensive lineman that are usually exhorting the crowd to quiet down while he's getting the playcall from the coaches.
Anyway, the shot is of Campbell, behind center, waving his arms downward and it kinda looks like he's doing a Michael Phelps' arm flap. Immediately afterward you hear this titanic SHHHHHHHH!!! and the board says "Offense at Work"
Sigh...
Getting out of the game was the disaster thatyerbrainondrugs mentioned over on Riggo's Rag, so I didn't get back home until 6:30 or so and I am just exhausted....
Well my wife and I fretted back and forth for a few seconds before saying, "Sure, but we don't know who yet"
Y'see.. my wife is a big Redskins fan but she had arranged to have her mom and
josabry come over to work on josabry's dress for wushi and beguine's pending nuptuals. Eventually we sort of let them decide for us. When we found out that her Aunt wasn't going (her Uncle was) then we decided to have me go. I donned a burgundy red cross blood drive shirt and headed out.We got off a little late but enjoyed a sandwich in the parking lot and then walked up to the stadium and found our great seats, upper deck, 2nd row, right next to the camera well on the 50 yd line. Great seats. Things, at least in the lower section of the Upper Bowl, don't look tiny from up there. You can still easily read uni numbers and get a good sense of the action. Names are a little rough to pick up, but otherwise it's a lot like seeing a baseball game from the upper deck. If you get to the front, you'll likely have a better view than many in the lower levels will.
Then the game happened. It was an ugly, sloppy game, but it did have some good defense on occasion so I enjoyed myself, unlike many of the fans around me.
I know some really good, nay, great Redskins fans. Fans who know the game and the team and love both with equal vigor. I was not seated among those fans. These guys wouldn't know a good call from a bad call, couldn't spot the yardage change on any given play (the Redskins gained at least 5 yards on every offensive play according to them), and were the kind of people who needed those crazy fan-instructions they have on the Redskins' scoreboards.
If you've been to a Redskins game recently, they have these prompts for when to get loud (while the Skins are on defense) and when to stay quiet (while the Skins are on.. y'know.. if I have to explain this you probably stopped reading a while ago). Anyway they use some clips from the most recent Madden football game with LaRon Landry inciting the crowd and Jason Campbell encouraging the crowd to quiet down.
Incidentally, Campbell never actually does this during the game, indeed its his offensive lineman that are usually exhorting the crowd to quiet down while he's getting the playcall from the coaches.
Anyway, the shot is of Campbell, behind center, waving his arms downward and it kinda looks like he's doing a Michael Phelps' arm flap. Immediately afterward you hear this titanic SHHHHHHHH!!! and the board says "Offense at Work"
Sigh...
Getting out of the game was the disaster that
yerbrainondrugs mentioned over on Riggo's Rag, so I didn't get back home until 6:30 or so and I am just exhausted....
