Are You Ready for Some Football? Denver Broncos at Atlanta Falcons

Sunday, Nov 16 was an awesome day. Joelle and I, along with other friends and family went to the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, GA to watch the visiting Denver Broncos play the Atlanta Falcons!

I saw this game come out on the schedule and cleared it through the boss, then requested the weekend off at work. When my vacation time was approved, I went to StubHub to search for some tickets. I found 10 for a pretty decent deal, ordered them - then waited!








Yesterday finally arrived. Joelle and I were ready to go, even anxious! :) (We asked Natalie if she wanted to go a number of times and she said "No" every time. She has NO interest in football. That's OK. Doreen was planning on going, but has 4 exams in next 7 days and plus a Mock Board Exam on Thursday and didn't feel like she could take the time to go. She needed some SERIOUS study time.)









We headed down to Atlanta with my in-laws and Kalvin, Nathan, Tracy, Cheryl, Cliff and Bonnie. Parking around the Georgia dome is like $30, so we parked just inside the city limits of ATL and took the MARTA - subway - into the stadium. A new experience for my kiddo.







It was wild going into the stadium - we had to line up in front of the doors with the men and women segregated and everyone was 'patted' down before entering the building. Interesting. Climbed up 3 levels and found our section, row and specific seats.






Section 331, row 9 seats 8&9. Fortunately we had some other Bronco fans seated right behind us and we were surrounded by a sea of Black and Red! Would have liked to been closer to the field, but that was too expensive. We had a really good view of the field and game though.






Game time was 1p, so we left home just before 10a, so we got there and in the first quarter went to grab a couple personal pizzas and a soda for Joelle and me. Each pizza $7 - OUCH. That's getting crazy expensive, but worth it for JP to have the full game experience!







It was a very good game. The Broncos eventually beat the Falcon 24 to 20. It was back and forth the whole game. Made for an exciting game. The crowd was absolutely into it and at points it was deafeningly (is that a word? GRIN) loud in there. Cool! Of course - it was awesome the Broncos pulled out the win!






Here's Joelle sitting with her grandparents who went with us as we waited for the MARTA to take us back to our vehicle. We stopped at Taco bell (Where we got more food for the both of us and spent less than we did at the game) and headed home to end an excellent day!

Just a few observations to add here at the end. Part of the fun of going to a game is to people watch. That was almost as fun at times!

Joelle had a ball pointing out all the Bronco fans we saw in the stadium and walking to and from the game and in the subway. A couple of times she hi-fived another Bronco fan. Cute!

We had some SERIOUS Falcon fans in our area. One fella, who had a number of drinks, almost spent more time turned around yelling at the people around him to stand up and make some noise to help their defense. Akwaaaard! :)

Another fella about 4 rows in front of us realized I was a Bronco fan. (It may have been because of my cheering when the Broncos did something good! GRIN) This guy throughout the game had at least 7 beers. (At $7 a pop) He was feeling NO pain! :) Every time the Falcons would do something good he had to turn around and point it out to me - like I wasn't watching the game! Too funny.

Then we had a couple behind us, probably about 3 rows that were intense. He taught me I'd been saying the words wrong in my vocabulary. I thought it was Offense and Defense. He kept saying, "Come on offent, let's go offent." "Okay defent, let's stop 'em here defent." Glad I got that straight now! :)

And the lady sitting next to him - OH MY Goodness! She was screaming bloody murder. It was literally like someone was coming after her with a knife. It scared me to death the first time she started hollering! She'd scream at the top of her lungs when the Broncos would get a good run, "Stop him, get him, GET HIM!" He, he, he - it was hilarious!

Man - yesterday was an awesome day!!!