Redskins Ravens Preseason Game

We were taking Snoopy on his evening walk several weeks ago when we noticed a guy coming out of his townhouse wearing a Baltimore Ravens football jersey. As they were playing the Redskins in DC that evening in a preseason matchup, I didn't think anything of it. I just figured he was another fan. He walked right up to us and said, "I have two tickets to the game tonight that I am not going to be able to use - would you two like to use them?" This doesn't normally happen to me, and as big of a football fan as I am, I had never been to a game in person. I figured the $80 sticker price on the tickets he was offering to us for free made this a good deal. We didn't really have any other plans for the evening, so we figured going to the game could be fun.

Long story short - we were already late to leave, so it was a pain driving down to the stadium. Finding parking took forever, and we wound up parking about a mile from the stadium. Our seats were nosebleeds (even though they were close to midfield), so it took a while to get up to them. We were finally in our seats near the start of the second quarter. We stayed until the end of the third quarter, then headed out (it wasn't that close of a game, and it was preseason anyway). Of course, when we got to the ground level, we didn't pay attention to where we were, and ended up walking ten minutes in the wrong direction. By the time we got back home, Tanja calculated we had been away from the house for five and a half hours to watch an hour and a half of football. It was an experience and I'm glad we got the tickets, but I think watching the game in my living room is a lot better.