Redskins to Restrict Large Tailgate Parties

[sportscurmudgeon]

jgalecpa:

You have it right. The game-day experience at Fed Ex is not much fun anymore and it is nowhere near worth the cost on a season-ticket basis.


And since you can get single game seats to ANY game you want, you can pick and choose only the best games with the best weather.


If I wanted to be hammered - - or buzzed since 9:00AM - - while watching a game, I can do that at home in front of my HDTV anytime I want. Funny, but I don't choose to do that very often...


I'll probably pick two games to see live this year - - maybe one. I'll go with four or five friends. We will hire a limo to take us from one of our houses to the game and then to pick us up and drive us home afterwards. We will have had a few adult beverages; we will still be functional and rational - - but not necessarily legal for driving purposes after the game.


Total cost to me for those two games - getting prime seats even if we have to pay more than face value which we don't usually have to do plus limo plus our adult beverages and food along the way - will be far less than a decent season ticket without parking or any food costs.

[sportscurmudgeon]

Smootsmack:

Ravens' home games are more fun than Skins' home games from the perspective of "game day experience".


One of the absolute best NFL stadium experiences is to get invited to one of the top-shelf luxury boxes in Philly at the Linc. You do NOT want to be in the parking lots among all of the mouthbreathers who are tailgating there, but once you get to the premier luxury boxes at the Linc, you are in a very good place...

[jdlea]

Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon

Smootsmack:

Ravens' home games are more fun than Skins' home games from the perspective of "game day experience".


One of the absolute best NFL stadium experiences is to get invited to one of the top-shelf luxury boxes in Philly at the Linc. You do NOT want to be in the parking lots among all of the mouthbreathers who are tailgating there, but once you get to the premier luxury boxes at the Linc, you are in a very good place...

So long as you're rooting for the Ravens, otherwise a lot of the fans there are a$$holes! I've seen them act like jerks to Browns fans and I experienced during the Sunday Night game last year. What's worse: I don't think the a$$hole Baltimore fan is the minority.

I actually know a lot of them (from living in B-More) and I had a Ravens fan tell me, before last season, "Joe Flacco can die in a car fire for all I care, he hasn't proven anything, it's all about Troy Smith, F*@K FLACCO!" Immediately after saying that every Ravens fan at the party cheered. Come the middle of the season when I was saying, "I told you he would be good." They all claimed he had earned his stripes and was the "new Troy Smith." True Story.

[sportscurmudgeon]

jdlea:

There are idiotic fans everywhere - - not just in Baltimore.

Recall I said that going to the luxury suites at the Linc was a great experience; we need not contemplate the rationality and the sobriety of a large number of Philly fans in the same stadium.

[jdlea]

Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon

jdlea:

There are idiotic fans everywhere - - not just in Baltimore.

Recall I said that going to the luxury suites at the Linc was a great experience; we need not contemplate the rationality and the sobriety of a large number of Philly fans in the same stadium.

Oh, I'm well aware of that. I'm just saying that I'm not actually sure how Baltimore fans have escaped a bad rep. I had beer bottles thrown at me on the club level at the Ravens-Skins game last year. It was more than just a select few is all I'm trying to say.