Losses will, of course, always suck. It was cool to see behind the scenes and what goes on during commercial breaks (you mean everyone doesn’t just stop and pull out their phones until commercial breaks are over?) And to see some of the flair, even if it was Broncos themed. The atmosphere of it all, etc etc.
What I didn’t expect (and maybe should have; mob mentality and all) is how the fans act behind the scenes. The hit on DTR that laid him out drew a flag, and the fans were pretty livid. Don’t agree with the call? Okay, sure, yeah, whatever. It happens. But then when he finally gets up and walks off the field, fans were booing. They were upset that he evidently “wasn’t injured enough”… Seriously? And then later when Cooper took that heavy hit, they were cheering on with shouts of “yeah, take that asshole out!” And “let’s take Garrett out at the knees too!”
I had a teaching moment with my 8 year old son, having to explain to him that it’s not okay to wish injury or harm to anyone regardless of what team they play for.
I’m guessing this is a thing for most home crowds? I want to give people the benefit of the doubt but damn man, I think I’ll stay home and cheer from my couch rather than pay hundreds to hear people be downright awful.
TL;DR - Don’t wish or celebrate injury on anyone, players are people too.
Dude this is every single football game.
It’s a huge crowd of drunk, wild people. This is everywhere I’ve ever been.
There really isn’t one place that is better than others.
At a 49ers game my dad got hit with a beer bottle
I second this. Pro football crowds are drunken lunatics just barely keeping their violent tendencies at bay under threat of constant surveillance and imprisonment. Not ALL of them of course, but a higher concentration of wife beating psychos than you might normally encounter out in the wild. Instead of season tickets, I spent $600 on a kick ass TCL and it’s just like being there. Without, you know, the spitting and thinly veiled threats.