I was fortunate enough to be given two tickets to Friday night’s Baltimore Ravens pre-season game.
As it turned out, Steve wasn’t up to taking Connor to the game and I wasn’t going to waste the tickets so it became “Frannie Goes to the Football Game.” I’ve never been to a football game, I swore I’d never go to a football game, and I don’t “get” the sport but I decided it would be an adventure.
Here are some random thoughts:
As it turned out, Steve wasn’t up to taking Connor to the game and I wasn’t going to waste the tickets so it became “Frannie Goes to the Football Game.” I’ve never been to a football game, I swore I’d never go to a football game, and I don’t “get” the sport but I decided it would be an adventure.
Here are some random thoughts:
- Having never been to a game before, when I walked into the stadium my first thought was “Wow, it looks just like the scene from The Dark Knight Rises.” Well, without the field caving in and the teams getting sucked into the hole.
- Isn’t there supposed to be more catching in this game?
- Why is there so much standing around? (According to this article, the officials weren’t at the top of their game.)
- Every time a flag was announced (and that was a lot), I heard the lyrics to a Rick Springfield song in my head. “Touchdown, turn around, flag on the play.” Not joking
- With the amount of force these players put into the game, it’s amazing that more players aren’t seriously hurt. Not sure if that’s a testament to the human body or to their physical conditioning. Either way, when a player runs down the field at top speed and another player takes his legs out from under him, how does this not result in a separated shoulder or worse?
- Football fans must have a lot more patience than I do. The concession lines could not have moved any slower and going to the ladies’ room was completely out of the question.
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| The view from our seats at M&T Bank Stadium |
