I love watching the NFL but it's infinitely better at home or in a bar than at the stadium. I've been to most of the B1G stadiums and the only places I've ever had close to an issue was at Illinois and Rutgers. It also puzzles me how some of this trash manages to get into these games. I was able to get two tickets to Giants-Packers at Lambeau, not even great seats, at face ($108) and flipped them for $250 a piece.
I went to a game at Nevada Reno in 1999. They were serving Jack Daniels at the stadium, I shit you not. Biggest fight in the stands I've ever seen. It was 5-6 full rows of people fighting, found out later that an OSU rugby player was there hanging out with the UNR rugby team and a frat picked a fight with the OSU rugby player. So the UNR rugby players came to his defense as did the entire frat to their bro. It was fucking awesome.
Looks like some New York based Raiders fan put a 55 year old Ravens fan in the hospital, says minor chance he survives
Joseph Bauer, a 55-year-old Ravens fan from the Baltimore suburb of Jessup, is in critical condition at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center after he sustained a head injury during a fight with a pair of Raiders fans at the Ravens Stadium this weekend. The Baltimore Sunfirst reported on this story, and according to their report, Scott Smith and Andrew Nappi were each charged with first- and second-degree assault for their role in the fight. The Sun spoke to Bauer’s sister Susan, who said that the fight started after Bauer got into an argument with Nappi and Smith near a concession stand. Bauer fell and hit his head on concrete after getting punched. Doctors apparently pegged his chances of survival at 30 percent.
depends what city and where in the stadium. it used to be a lot worse. as someone else said, how do people spend hundreds of dollars on these games? when my grandfather would go to games decades ago, he said that a Cleveland fan was passed out drunk on a sidewalk while it was snowing & the cops wouldnt help him bc he was from Cleveland. Mid-late 90s I remember people arguing but nothing as insane as these videos, went to the final Browns @ Steelers game in 99 and people wore orange armbands in support of Cleveland. these days everyone sits there and doesnt even clap or yell.
Games at RFK in the 90s were great, even in the nosebleeds. Then they moved the team to Landover and now it's a brofest
It was quite the spectacle. If you can't imagine how visually impressive about 40 bodies brawling spread up and down 5-6 rows of bleachers would look, you have a poor imagination.
I was around 10 when I went to my first NFL game. Seahawks @ Falcons. It was my first time to be around people who were clearly shitfaced. One guy spilt his beer all over the guy in front of him, so the guy turned around and slugged him in the face. That was the only time my parents took me to an NFL game.
When you have season tickets and everyone around you for the most part does as well it's not particularly eventful. I was probably 5 or so One of my earliest Dolphins memories is sitting in the lower bowl not watching the game at all while multiple fights in the upper deck were unfolding. Next memory is probably having plexiglass fall on about 20 of us from above, Colts fans were trying to make noise banging on it and broke it. Was surreal, a lady behind us had to have hundreds of stitches including to her tit which was cut pretty profusely. My Mom ended up on the news and I was a salty little shit that I couldn't get any shine on camera. They replaced all the glass with wire and gave the badly injured people free tickets for multiple seasons. /CSB
I've only been to one NFL game, Steelers at Falcons during the Vick days. Crowd was over 75% people of color, the tailgate felt like magic city classic weekend. I imagine the NFL experience in Atlanta is markedly different than any of the other franchises
Been to a few Vikings game in the Metro Dome and from what I have heard from a few friends who have attended games at the new stadium and the consensus is that Minnesota should only be allowed to play home games at Noon. Sunday Night and Monday Night games in Minnesota are complete shitshows....puke everywhere, people passing out, fights, people falling down stairs, spilling beers...No thanks.
Went to RFK all the time as early as 8. Never had any issues expect when those Godless heathen Philly fans showed up. Since they moved to Fedex, I've stopped going. Not because of fan issues, but because the stadium is in the middle of a parking lot with literally nothing around it. I hate you, Dan Snyder. I hate you.
We were part of the group that built that place. I hate that stadium. Landover for christsakes.... RFK was the shit. When everyone started stomping their feet, the whole place would shake. Watching a game at Fedex is like watching the game on your tv at home. No character. And Dan Snyder...may you be cursed forever and again until you sell the team.
Been to both home games so far and didn't see any of this. People are sauced but it's not aggressive. Minnesota is pretty tame when it comes to NFL games.
Hmm I'd rather have my NFL team lose every year than have to go home to his wife every night. Guess my priorities are off Spoiler To be fair, probably the reason for his rage. That, and living in Cleveland.
I'd think in most places the night games are worse in terms of fan behavior. aside from the obvious ability to drink all day, night games are in less demand and cheaper to attend - thus more low class dummies who arent concerned with work on Monday or Tuesday.
A friend of mine and his friend went to a Lions/Vikings game there two years ago and got jumped afterwards, got his truck keys stolen, had to pay hundreds of dollars to get a new key, then after all that got a DUI driving home I felt bad for him at first until he told me he was taunting and talking shit to Vikings fans around him during the game. Those MN fans are a good bunch
If you're an opposing fan running your mouth at an NFL game you deserve an ass kicking. It's just such a stupid fucking decision. My wife and I go to the Bucs game here in Atlanta every year and never have a problem outside of obnoxious shit talking because we sit in our seats and don't interact with gen pop. If you start shit outnumbered 100:1 you're just asking for a problem
Probably true. I had the misfortune of attending a Bears/Vikings Monday night game a few years back. Saw 3 or 4 fights in the stands just around us. Saw at least 15-20 different piles of puke in the concourse and bathrooms. Saw 2 people sitting near us puke on themselves in a semi passed out state. Saw 2 people stumble and fall down the stairs and take out 5 or 6 people in front of them.....never again. I don't know how the Monday night game went but I have a friend who works at the Stadium and she said she couldn't believe what a shit show the Sunday night game was.
Not only is the stadium bland, in a horrible location, and lacks any redeeming character / tradition, but everything about the stadium makes it seem like it was built 40+ years ago and not 20 years ago.
In Atlanta airport and this mf'er and his wife/gf are decked out in Falcons gear and have a saints backpack. What kinda fuck tard shit is that?