Sunday, August 15, 2010

It's only a game

Our family of 9 went to our first and only football game of the season It was a preseason game at FedEX field in Maryland. I was so excited to go. It was my first professional football game ever. This was the first time in 2 yrs that both teams would play each other. I wasn't going to miss this.

Within the first few minutes of the game, wordw were exchanged between Skins fans and Bills fans, and it quickly escalated from there. The words became taunts and threats and quickly became confrontational. Two Skins fans kept trying to coax the Bills fans into a fight. The addition of several beers and mixed drinks only made it worse.

It's just too bad that some confrontational drunk had to ruin the fun for everyone around the Section 418. I spent way too much time looking over my shoulder. It was like watching a train wreck, I just couldn't look away. Neither could anyone else. I missed most the game.

This one man became so agitated and angry that the staff came over to talk to him twice. He was spitting and throwing things at the Bills fans in front of him (a group of maybe ten or so).

Towards the end of the game the other group of Bills fans left early. The agitated drunk and his sidekick were not far behind. Sadly, I don't think I'll ever go to another game again, or wear a an oposing team's jersey. What happened to sportsmanship?