cowboysooner
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Not on any of the football boards, so I am venting here.
I have purchased my last OU football ticket.
Saturday was the worst sporting event attendance experience of my life.
My dad starting taking me to OU football games in the 1960s. I have two degrees from OU and have gone to every home game I could during my adult lifetime. I like the experience of the day as much as the game. Going a couple hours early and avoiding traffic spending time on campus corner and campus before the game, getting a meal at one of the long standing game day places, then getting into the stadium a little early to watch warm up.
Saturday, we got up early and headed from Tulsa to the game. Got stuck in maddening traffic starting at 244. Got parked about an hour and a half before the game, and just had time to walk to campus corner and buy a couple tickets (needed two extras as I took my son and his girlfriend), and got outside the stadium about 45 minutes before the game. Stood in the heat and humidity for those 45 minutes while security guards spent all day check to see if coeds that were virtually naked had weapons of mass destruction hidden in their mini shorts and tank top. Then, since nobody got in the game until game time, I waited another 15 minutes to walk up the ramp, and missed the kickoff.
There were no vendors with cold drinks in the aisles. By half we had been in the direct sunlight, heat and humidity for over 3 hours and called it quits.
This was the first game I have ever left early and it had nothing to do with the score.
I will continue to root on the team, watch the game on TV, and if not on TV, listen on the radio. But, OU plainly doesn't want me attending these games live.
BTW, I have been to plenty of games on hot days.
I have purchased my last OU football ticket.
Saturday was the worst sporting event attendance experience of my life.
My dad starting taking me to OU football games in the 1960s. I have two degrees from OU and have gone to every home game I could during my adult lifetime. I like the experience of the day as much as the game. Going a couple hours early and avoiding traffic spending time on campus corner and campus before the game, getting a meal at one of the long standing game day places, then getting into the stadium a little early to watch warm up.
Saturday, we got up early and headed from Tulsa to the game. Got stuck in maddening traffic starting at 244. Got parked about an hour and a half before the game, and just had time to walk to campus corner and buy a couple tickets (needed two extras as I took my son and his girlfriend), and got outside the stadium about 45 minutes before the game. Stood in the heat and humidity for those 45 minutes while security guards spent all day check to see if coeds that were virtually naked had weapons of mass destruction hidden in their mini shorts and tank top. Then, since nobody got in the game until game time, I waited another 15 minutes to walk up the ramp, and missed the kickoff.
There were no vendors with cold drinks in the aisles. By half we had been in the direct sunlight, heat and humidity for over 3 hours and called it quits.
This was the first game I have ever left early and it had nothing to do with the score.
I will continue to root on the team, watch the game on TV, and if not on TV, listen on the radio. But, OU plainly doesn't want me attending these games live.
BTW, I have been to plenty of games on hot days.