01-19-2022, 06:13 PM
Last Saturday was pretty surreal from a long time ticket holder's perspective. Aside from the record crowd, we haven't had that strong a *home* crowd in PBS since the early Lewis/Palmer days.
When PBS first opened the majority of the seats were sold as season tickets to Bengals fans. In the years since the Bengals fanbase has eroded and PBS has become a popular destination for opponent fans. Good seats always available. In the later playoff games fans had lost so much faith that we had substantial opposing fan presence which only made losing those games that much more miserable.
So yeah, it seemed like there were a lot of fans there on Saturday who had never been to a game because they probably hadn't been. Welcome to The Jungle.
The bathrooms have always been inadequate for a crowd that drinks beer the entire first half and then converges on the bathrooms at halftime.
Historically the little pro shops besides the main pro shop have rarely been busy. Those people are used to standing around for most of the day without much to do. Not surprised that they didn't handle the crowds well. PBS concessions have also always been a mess. They use a lot of volunteers who often seem to be figuring things out from scratch every weekend.
There have been few times in PBS history when an entire sellout crowd has stayed until the end of the game (or later). Many Bengals fans are inveterate third quarter leavers. I never understood that. Add a lot of newbies with no clue where they are going, anti-terrorist barricades, street beggars, and buskers happy to block egress and you get a mess. It's all part of the fun.
Just be glad that they've relaxed security. The last few seasons it was like dealing with the TSA to get into the stadium.
Y'all come back now, ya hear!
When PBS first opened the majority of the seats were sold as season tickets to Bengals fans. In the years since the Bengals fanbase has eroded and PBS has become a popular destination for opponent fans. Good seats always available. In the later playoff games fans had lost so much faith that we had substantial opposing fan presence which only made losing those games that much more miserable.
So yeah, it seemed like there were a lot of fans there on Saturday who had never been to a game because they probably hadn't been. Welcome to The Jungle.
The bathrooms have always been inadequate for a crowd that drinks beer the entire first half and then converges on the bathrooms at halftime.
Historically the little pro shops besides the main pro shop have rarely been busy. Those people are used to standing around for most of the day without much to do. Not surprised that they didn't handle the crowds well. PBS concessions have also always been a mess. They use a lot of volunteers who often seem to be figuring things out from scratch every weekend.
There have been few times in PBS history when an entire sellout crowd has stayed until the end of the game (or later). Many Bengals fans are inveterate third quarter leavers. I never understood that. Add a lot of newbies with no clue where they are going, anti-terrorist barricades, street beggars, and buskers happy to block egress and you get a mess. It's all part of the fun.
Just be glad that they've relaxed security. The last few seasons it was like dealing with the TSA to get into the stadium.
Y'all come back now, ya hear!
