Paradise Lost (sunday at stadium)

[poke]

It's a shame really. I am really enjoying the new stadium, loving the tailgating and atmosphere before the games. It is a great place to watch a game. The sad part is when the game doesn't end the way you want it to. I have it easy, I live here but when the Boys lose a home game I think about all the people who have traveled and spent a ton of money and have to leave disappointed.

The fog early (9:30) was so thick you couldn't see the top of the stadium from Lot 11.

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2 hours later, from almost the same spot, the day was beautiful and the roof was already open. For the first time that i remember they opened the roof before they opened the doors.
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I am seeing more and more large cookers, short busses fixed up, fancy tailgate trailers and bigger and nicer TV's in the parking lot.
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heres a cooker made from a beer keg

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and an unusually decorated Christmas tree

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this guy went up and down the sidewalk by lot 11 for hours selling or trying to sell a parking pass, or he had a lot of them. neat little electric scooter

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kids were having fun, Collins St was hopping, the pre-game atmosphere is great, we just gotta work on those sad endings !
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a lot of stuff to do, this is in the west plaza.

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the dorky 3-d glasses, I gotta admit i loved it when the crowd booed loudly when they told us what we had been watching, and I cheered loudly when they switched it back to normal.

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sorry for no game pictures, i was too busy screaming either in support or aggravation most of the game. when it was 10-10 i thought we had turned it around. the Ware injury was a huge blow. the sucky play after that was even huger. ( if huger is a word)

and i swear i took this at the stadium, looks like one of the CRAP people actually went to the game even though i am sure he knew we didnt have a chance of winning.

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j/k all the realists out there. at this point you guys seem to have a better grip on reality than i do. However after Saturday we will be looking better !! who dat say dey gonna beat dem Saints ? THE COWBOYS !!!

hope ya'll enjoy the pics, i sure enjoyed taking them.

 

[DavidS]

Great pictures Poke.

I love the guys that bring the massive flat screens. Pretty cool set-up.

 

[dreghorn2]

Thanks for sharing, really enjoyed the pics.

 

[Boyzmamacita]

The thread title needs to be changed to TAILGATE PICS AND STUFF. Thanks for sharing, poke.

 

[theebs]

Nice pics poke.

I have changed my opinion of the stadium and of the fans here forever after this weeks game.

It stinks and so do they!

 

[WoodysGirl]

Nice pics poke. I loved them all.

 

[Future]

Cool stuff...

Man walking towards that stadium was awesome...I hadn't giggled so much since I was a little girl. I took about a dozen the same as the one you did.

 

[poke]

Nice pics poke.

I have changed my opinion of the stadium and of the fans here forever after this weeks game.

It stinks and so do they!

i think we saw the Christmas present crowd theebs.

i talked to a few folks and it seemed a lot were there for the first time.
i cant fault them for ooooh-ing and awe-iing and being distracted their first time, but i do understand where you are coming from.

 

[Future]

i think we saw the Christmas present crowd theebs.

i talked to a few folks and it seemed a lot were there for the first time.
i cant fault them for ooooh-ing and awe-iing and being distracted their first time, but i do understand where you are coming from.

I don't think it has to do with first time. It was my first time there and the guy behind me kept telling me to sit down.

The crowd was putrid.

 

[theebs]

i think we saw the Christmas present crowd theebs.

i talked to a few folks and it seemed a lot were there for the first time.
i cant fault them for ooooh-ing and awe-iing and being distracted their first time, but i do understand where you are coming from.

I know what your saying, but this week has sent me to the darkside. THis area sucks. They dont support teams here, they buy a ticket and say we have superbowls go win and then I will cheer instead of being behind their teams.

El stinko. Thats why the attendance figures were so bad here in the 80s.

that crap yesterday with the 3d was just incredibly foolish.

 

[theebs]

I don't think it has to do with first time. It was my first time there and the guy behind me kept telling me to sit down.

The crowd was putrid.

where did you sit?

 

[DavidS]

where did you sit?

On his *** at home.....lol

My section was rockin......No hating from me.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

Nice pictures. Looked like you had a pretty good time. I know I did on the couple of games I went to at the old stadium. I'd love to go to some at the new stadium at some point.

 

[WoodysGirl]

On his *** at home.....lol

My section was rockin......No hating from me.

You should try not to be so quick to pull the trigger on non-attending fans.

If you'd read the thread, you'd see that the guy actually went to the game.

 

[DavidS]

You should try not to be so quick to pull the trigger on non-attending fans.

If you'd read the thread, you'd see that the guy actually went to the game.

I did read the whole thing. I just dont like his attitude about the people at the stadium. He acts like the whole stadium is full of crappy fans. I take offense to that personally.

 

[Future]

where did you sit?

Section 450...2nd row from the top lol

There were like 10 Chargers fans who were louder than the rest of our section it was pathetic. I couldn't believe that nobody said something to them the entire time they were that obnoxious.

I think a crowd is pretty pathetic when the only time it gets loud is too boo the 3-D thing and after Ware got hurt. But of course it got real quiet after the offsides. Awful.

 

[theebs]

I did read the whole thing. I just dont like his attitude about the people at the stadium. He acts like the whole stadium is full of crappy fans. I take offense to that personally.

I used to feel that way but after 7 years.

No more. This place is what it is.

 

[theebs]

Section 450...2nd row from the top lol

There were like 10 Chargers fans who were louder than the rest of our section it was pathetic. I couldn't believe that nobody said something to them the entire time they were that obnoxious.

I think a crowd is pretty pathetic when the only time it gets loud is too boo the 3-D thing and after Ware got hurt. But of course it got real quiet after the offsides. Awful.

that sucks man, I am suprised it is crappy up there too.

My section is dead quiet. The guy next to me and behind me are great fans and they are all into the game, but the rest of the section is filled with at the movies type of fans.

Chargers fans were everywhere yesterday. I saw to my right a 20 year old kid with a chargers jersey on screaming and jumping up and down at the end of the game.....You have never won anything..Dallas sucks..your qb sucks....he was yelling at a couple in their 60s, the lady had a cowboys sweatshirt on and this guy was yelling this stuff at her.

Its mind boggling out there.

 

[Future]

I did read the whole thing. I just dont like his attitude about the people at the stadium. He acts like the whole stadium is full of crappy fans. I take offense to that personally.

Of course there are good fans. But when there are entire sections mostly empty (the cowboys side of the field), Chargers fans carrying on and waving flags the whole time, and times you can hear a little kid scream from like 5 sections away that means the crowd is bad...the sum is greater than the whole of it's parts.

If you want to see a rockin crowd go to a game in Buffalo. During the Monday nighter nobody sat. You couldn't so much as say "Cowboys" without getting yelled at.

 

[DavidS]

I used to feel that way but after 7 years.

No more. This place is what it is.

Thats because your being weak-minded and pissed off about a loss. Your letting all the haters get in your head.

Why dont you come over to my end of town and go to a Falcon game....that will give you a better perspective of how good we have it as Cowboys fans.