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Originally Posted by BloodSpite
Some traditions are costly. But the time with family, I think anyway, is always worth the cost.
Even if it is something as simple or magnificent as a game of football.
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Originally Posted by GreekGodX
I think you will definitely appreciate it when you can hand the season tickets down to your kids  |
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Originally Posted by TBone
Congrats Todd, it's not the game that matters it's the time out with the family...what a great gift..
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Yeah, all this is true. But we have a blast watching the games from the comfort of our own living room.
The advantages of that?
Seat: comfy (free seating) -vs- aluminum bench ($70 per seat)
Seat cont'd: plenty of room & good view -vs- cramped, and the butthead in front of my son won't sit down, while the guy behind is spilling his beer on me and my boy.
Weather: climate controlled -vs- nice/hot/cold/freezing/rain/snow/etc.
Food: minimal cost & warm -vs- $5.00 hot dogs & other junk
Beer: decent beer (micro brews) -vs- $6.50 for beer I won't drink
Company: the whole family and as many friends as fit in the living room -vs- only one son/wife/friend
View: best camera angle -vs- hoping to see it at all as idiots cannot stay seated, especially if a play turns exciting and then you have to look through a body, or stand up yourself (why did I buy a "seat" if I'm going to be standing the whole game? - see above for the seat I could be sitting on if I were at home)
I've been attending games at Lambeau off and on for over 40 years, it is a great place to go watch a game, there is no other venue like it - and yes, I have been a quite a few other stadiums, from LA to Hartford, CT. But given the above, explain to me again why I should drop $70 a ticket and watch games there versus watching games at home?
No I am not seriously thinking of giving up the tickets, but when you look at it all in the terms above, you do ask yourself why you'd want to be someplace other than home? I mean seriously, consider what the benefit of going to the game is -vs- staying at home. And when that bill comes for all the tickets at one time, and you're trying to figure out where the money is going to come from to pay it, you do pause and consider. Buying a ticket, one game at a time is a whole lot easier to swallow.
It might be more exciting to go to a game at Lambeau if you went once every few years, rather than most of the games every season. I know that when I came back into the area after being away for 6 years and only having gone to one game in that time, I was stoked to be heading to a game at Lambeau the first couple times. Some of that has worn off. I do think that we lose the excitement of the things that are common to us. Prime rib gets boring if you have it every night. I think that's what happens with marriages when people tell me, "Pastor, our marriage is on the rocks, the 'fire' is gone." We become comfortable and and spark isn't there anymore.
Anyway, just some musings.
Peace of the Lord be with you.