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Kreugen · 07-02-2008, 09:27 AM

Reading some of the replies to the article is a good laugh too. Seriously, if you need to sit that badly, you probably have one of those Sam Da Man hospital bed contraptions at home. How fucking fat and lazy are you that you can't stand up? Football has constant breaks in the action anyways.

Of course there are some arguments with merit, namely people with children. After choking back the bile that instinctively rises up whenever I read "BUT THE CHILDRENS!!1" I can only say that if they are so young they can't see over the lardass in front of them even if they stand on their seat, you just wasted your goddamn money on a kid way too young to appreciate what they are watching. But there are sections of the stadium for more casual fans that are more likely to stay seated while stuffing their face with hot dogs and $7 bottled waters and you should try to get tickets for those. Of course, this is a football game, so you still might be the only boring stick in the mud sitting down during plays in the whole fuckin stadium unless the home team is getting slaughtered.

Actually, this reminds me of another experience: Nascar. I had free tickets to the Richmond race one year and since I'd do anything once, I went with a friend. Oh. My. God. If you haven't gone, please do. Not to watch the race, but for the spectacle of one hundred thousand drunks. But once the race starts, the fun stops. Everyone stands. And I mean the entire fucking time. Now this just makes no goddamn sense. For one, there are very few breaks over the entire four hour race. But also that small fact that there's no audience participation whatsoever. The stands could be completely empty and the race would go on in the exact same way. They can't hear you, they can't see you, they really don't give a fuck about you. Fucking mind boggling. I abandoned my seat much of the race and hung out near the beer trucks, because being ground level with cars zipping by at 150ish was actually pretty awesome. I admit, yellow flag restarts are exciting and the last dozen laps with two cars dueling back and forth on every single turn was pretty damn cool. Its the other 300ish miles that sucked ass.

07-02-2008, 09:27 AM	#15 (permalink)
Kreugen Fires of Heaven Ancient Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 2,777 +44 Internets	Reading some of the replies to the article is a good laugh too. Seriously, if you need to sit that badly, you probably have one of those Sam Da Man hospital bed contraptions at home. How fucking fat and lazy are you that you can't stand up? Football has constant breaks in the action anyways. Of course there are some arguments with merit, namely people with children. After choking back the bile that instinctively rises up whenever I read "BUT THE CHILDRENS!!1" I can only say that if they are so young they can't see over the lardass in front of them even if they stand on their seat, you just wasted your goddamn money on a kid way too young to appreciate what they are watching. But there are sections of the stadium for more casual fans that are more likely to stay seated while stuffing their face with hot dogs and $7 bottled waters and you should try to get tickets for those. Of course, this is a football game, so you still might be the only boring stick in the mud sitting down during plays in the whole fuckin stadium unless the home team is getting slaughtered. Actually, this reminds me of another experience: Nascar. I had free tickets to the Richmond race one year and since I'd do anything once, I went with a friend. Oh. My. God. If you haven't gone, please do. Not to watch the race, but for the spectacle of one hundred thousand drunks. But once the race starts, the fun stops. Everyone stands. And I mean the entire fucking time. Now this just makes no goddamn sense. For one, there are very few breaks over the entire four hour race. But also that small fact that there's no audience participation whatsoever. The stands could be completely empty and the race would go on in the exact same way. They can't hear you, they can't see you, they really don't give a fuck about you. Fucking mind boggling. I abandoned my seat much of the race and hung out near the beer trucks, because being ground level with cars zipping by at 150ish was actually pretty awesome. I admit, yellow flag restarts are exciting and the last dozen laps with two cars dueling back and forth on every single turn was pretty damn cool. Its the other 300ish miles that sucked ass.