Raiders Football!!!

I just wanted to post a few pics from the football game we went to the other night. Pat got free tickets to the first Monday night football Raiders game from work (his company has 3 sets of season tickets as well as a luxury box).

We had awesome seats, 46 rows up, in the last row of the lower deck!

I just went for the $9 beer!

Make note of the score: Ouch! The Raiders took a beating!

The game itself was nothing too exciting. Unfortunately for all of the Raiders fans, they got spanked by the Broncos. Let me just say this (and if you are a Raiders fan, stop reading this blog right now), Raiders fans are CRAZY!! True, they love their team, just like any other fanbase. But I was literally fearful for my safety in this environment. Had I not been wearing Raiders colors, I would probably have been taunted, cussed at, and possibly beaten up (and I am not even kidding). And don't even get me started on the traffic! Driving in the Bay Area is a whole different scenario than what we are used to here. The traffic on the way there was not bad. But once we turned into the stadium, it took us about 2 hours to drive 1/2 mile! When we did get to the stadium, we found out that the parking was sold out, so we drove to the "Overfill Lot" (same price, dirt field, 1 mile walk to stadium). I'm glad I can now say that I've been to a professional football game, but I let my husband know that the next free tickets he gets will go to better use if he takes someone who's a little more of a football fan than myself.

Oh, and we are now 72 days into the fiscal year, and still no CA state budget. :(