Pros and cons of football

I went to my first football game as a season ticket holder last night. After it rained all day, the clouds moved on just in time. It was a good experience and not nearly as bad as I had been dreading. I am still considering buying tickets to Reba McIntyre and Kelly Clarkson's concert just to make The Guy go to something out of his element, but we'll see how it goes.

While I was at the game, I started making a list of things I like and dislike about going to football games.

I like:

• stadium hot dogs
• smell of the ozone coming off the lights
• exciting plays I actually followed and understood (sorta)
• the guy 5 rows down with the homemade combine hat
• little girls with pigtails and face paint
• fire works
• parachuters dropped from a plane into the middle of the field
• the mascot. (Yes, I admit. I think Gainer is funny. Even if he "likes women"*)

I do not like:

• drunk people
• heckling
• booing the visiting team
• yelling "You suck" at a coach or player
• the cost of drinks and hot dogs at the stadium - ($7.50 for a coke and a hot dog. What?)
• drunk people getting louder

I have a hard time with what I consider unsportsmanlike conduct. That was my least favourite part of the game. They say it's worse when Calgary comes to play. I'm going to skip those games. I just think it's tacky and uncalled for. You can watch a game without getting drunk and offensive.

Although, I am new to the sport.


*edit: I forgot to explain this. Janny was at a gas station when Gainer happened to be there. Gainer tried to hug her repeatedly and followed her around when she tried to evade him. A strange trucker who was standing by said to her, "Gainer likes women" in a leery Ozarks kind of way.