Respect to the Elders

[*Go Cards*]

(02-01-2022, 09:45 AM)Sled21 Wrote: I've always wondered what kind of hoops you have to go through to get front row seats behind the bench. In all my years, I've never seen one available, I guess they are all season ticket holders. What's the view of the game like?

They have been bought every year since 1968 and grandfathered in. They are a block of 10 seats that most of the people are from the West Carrolton area where my father lived. Now all of them are since I sold them to the couple sitting next to me. Anyway we were all 16th row in old stadium but seniority allowed us to land on front row in PBS when turning in for best available. 

I was just fortunate, they are my fathers good friends and my father and me had two tickets that we had started buying in 1991. We always tailgated with these good folks and hung out at halftime and before game together as well. Fast forward a few years and there were back to back games where it was like -10 degrees with wind chill of 40 below. It was brutal, so my dad says heck no, so I get my best friend to go to first. Then 2nd game came around and it was the Vikings needing a win on Christmas Eve to go to playoffs and nobody would go. So drive up to game by myself and try to give ticket away outside, no takers, barren wasteland per it was last game of season of a bad year for Bengals.

I go down and hang out with my dads friends who had been buying these 10 seats since 1968 and they were astonished that I drove up from Louisville by myself in 40 below zero wind chill to see the Bengals play a meaningless game. Shook my hand and said we had two people pulling out of our block of 10 and have been looking for a diehard fan and believe we found him if you would like them, oh by the way we landed on the front row in new stadium,(my two landed on 9th) only rule is you can never bring an opposing fan. I said HELL YES  and that would allow me to bring a friend and my father as well and would would not have to drive alone to meet there. 

Oh and the view is incredible but if you are not careful you catch yourself watching sideline or HOT sideline commentators who were always right directly below my seat. Literally if I spilled my drink it would go into Erin Andrews and such's purse. Although in real life they do not look as good as on TV and usually have accentuated facial features except for Tracy Wolfson who still looks hot and normal in person. But they never talk, cheerleaders and players will but never the sideline reporters

So just really fell in my lap per being a loyal diehard Bengals fan when they were horrible and still cheap.