Monday, November 24, 2008

First NFL game

We went to the state-of-the-art University of Phoenix stadium to see the NY Giants play the Arizona Cardinals. It is a very impressive stadium, and even though we had horrible seats on paper, we could see the action very well- there doesn't appear to be a bad seat in the house. The only negative was they didn't open the stadium for some reason, even though it was sunny outside with a blue sky.

Because Phoenix is a horrible pro football town, not only was I able to get tickets on short notice, but so were about 10,000 Giants fans, many of whom apparently did fly in from New York to see a team that they aren't able to otherwise in their own backyard. It was strange seeing large amounts of blue spread out with red.

As a result, there was a lot of trash talking between drunk Cardinal fans and drunk Giants fans. It was in appropriate at times, but for the most part good-natured. When the game was close, the trash talking was even and fair, but as the Giants pulled away in the second half, the Arizona fans had less to say and the Giant fans wouldn't shut up.

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