Den-in-NH
Happy For Tom
So, last night, the fans in the stadium and my section seemed very good to me. That said, please allow me to rant a bit:
About halfway through the first quarter a get a tap on my back. I turn around and there is this older woman behind me. She's not a regular in my section, I've never seen her before. She asks me to sit down. Bearing in mind the whole section has pretty much been on their feet the whole time.
I say, "Sorry - I don't think I can do that. You should stand up - this a playoff football game after all."
She responds, "I don't give a shit." So I say "Well, then neither do I."
So about 10 minutes later a guy sitting next to her (it must've taken him that long to warm up his balls) grabs my shoulder and says "You need to apologize to her - that was really rude. Sit down." I say "Dude, whatever. If you haven't noticed the whole section is on their feet - if you want to sit the whole time you guys should have stayed home. This is my regular section and we try to be loud."
To this this guy responds, "Well how would you like to lose your tickets because if you don't sit down I'm going to report you."
I was all WTF at this point and was like, "For what, standing - go ahead do what you got to do. I'm not in violation of any rule."
At this point we're starting to draw some attention and some cat-calls from the surrounding area start flying at the guy - people yelling "Stand up!" and such.
I'm starting to get pissed, but trying to be cool. Then this guy pulls this shit - "You got no idea who I am buddy, one call from me and you're outta here."
Now my wife (who is pretty confrontational by nature) has had enough and she turns around and goes off on the guy - pretty much telling him to shut the eff up. She starting to get really pissed and the guy starts telling her not to defend me because I'm ignorant. She starts yelling and now (because my wife tends to swear when she gets pissed), I'm distracted from being pissed to calm her down so she doesn't get herself in trouble. So I quiet her down and say to the dude, "I'm done talking with you - You gotta make a call, make a call, I'm standing."
From here the crowd was totally on my side, so I think the guy got the message to shut the hell up. He didn't say shit after that, neither did she. My section (which I know quite a few regulars in) was pretty good from that point on making sarcastic "Sit down I can't see" comments to each other and NO ONE high-fived this couple after that - they were basically blacklisted.
But man, I was steaming and stewing over that for a bit. They left at some point late in the third quarter - wifey looked cold and miserable the whole game.
Bottom line - if you don't want to be a part of the stadium experience guess what? THERE IS THIS THING CALLED TV!! Watch the game on your damn couch where you can be all cozy and warm and I promise you I won't be standing in front of you!!!
OK, end rant. Thanks for the cartharsis.
About halfway through the first quarter a get a tap on my back. I turn around and there is this older woman behind me. She's not a regular in my section, I've never seen her before. She asks me to sit down. Bearing in mind the whole section has pretty much been on their feet the whole time.
I say, "Sorry - I don't think I can do that. You should stand up - this a playoff football game after all."
She responds, "I don't give a shit." So I say "Well, then neither do I."
So about 10 minutes later a guy sitting next to her (it must've taken him that long to warm up his balls) grabs my shoulder and says "You need to apologize to her - that was really rude. Sit down." I say "Dude, whatever. If you haven't noticed the whole section is on their feet - if you want to sit the whole time you guys should have stayed home. This is my regular section and we try to be loud."
To this this guy responds, "Well how would you like to lose your tickets because if you don't sit down I'm going to report you."
I was all WTF at this point and was like, "For what, standing - go ahead do what you got to do. I'm not in violation of any rule."
At this point we're starting to draw some attention and some cat-calls from the surrounding area start flying at the guy - people yelling "Stand up!" and such.
I'm starting to get pissed, but trying to be cool. Then this guy pulls this shit - "You got no idea who I am buddy, one call from me and you're outta here."
Now my wife (who is pretty confrontational by nature) has had enough and she turns around and goes off on the guy - pretty much telling him to shut the eff up. She starting to get really pissed and the guy starts telling her not to defend me because I'm ignorant. She starts yelling and now (because my wife tends to swear when she gets pissed), I'm distracted from being pissed to calm her down so she doesn't get herself in trouble. So I quiet her down and say to the dude, "I'm done talking with you - You gotta make a call, make a call, I'm standing."
From here the crowd was totally on my side, so I think the guy got the message to shut the hell up. He didn't say shit after that, neither did she. My section (which I know quite a few regulars in) was pretty good from that point on making sarcastic "Sit down I can't see" comments to each other and NO ONE high-fived this couple after that - they were basically blacklisted.
But man, I was steaming and stewing over that for a bit. They left at some point late in the third quarter - wifey looked cold and miserable the whole game.
Bottom line - if you don't want to be a part of the stadium experience guess what? THERE IS THIS THING CALLED TV!! Watch the game on your damn couch where you can be all cozy and warm and I promise you I won't be standing in front of you!!!
OK, end rant. Thanks for the cartharsis.
