TERRIBLE Lane Stadium Experience

[TheMalcolmConnection]

My girlfriend started working at Virginia Tech just over a year ago and last night was the first night I got to make it down to a game. We paid $80 for lower level seats on the 10 yard line about 8 rows back.

That's where the positives end.

Now, Gmanc can attest that both me and my girlfriend are heavy drinkers at football games, but I've never seen anything to the level that it was taken to at Lane. I've been to UT, UVA, and FSU games and have never seen such belligerence. We had people pushing and shoving us to get into the gates, people were throwing up just OUTSIDE the gates and otherwise being completely obnoxious. Once we actually GOT inside, we made our way to our seats which are basically space for one ass cheek a person. Once we finally sat down we were asked numerous times to move because "people had our seats" and each time we had to explain to their stupid drunken asses that these were OUR seats and that they need to read the right ROW next time. This is also one of those stadiums where EVERYONE stands up for the entire game. The man to the left of us continually was pushing and shoving to get to the bathroom, most likely because he and his wife were sharing a bottle of Wild Turkey they smuggled into the stadium. At one point his wife fell across my girlfriend and I's laps. Now I've been to a lot of football games, pro and college and I've never heard so much bitching about one's own "team" than I had in that stadium. The crowd was rude and was definitely not the "team family" type of atmosphere that you get with the Redskins.

Barring someone giving me a completely glowing review of a game they've been to there, I have no intention of ever going to a game there again. I'm not going to pay $80 to have NO place to sit, have people push and shove me and throw up all around me.

Anybody have any GOOD experiences?