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My Trip to Lambeau Field -Probably never again
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Ok so as you all may have seen in my drunken rage last Saturday night I proclaimed my doneness with the NFL.... Well there's a story behind it and one that after calming down I can find some humor in it though I am still more than a little disturbed about what almost happened to me. 

So I will start this story off with the admittance that I had been drinking. And I was feeling it for sure. With that disclaimer I have to tell this story from two different perspectives. First my own perspective and then with the information that was unknown to me that was relayed to me later. 

It all started when we arrived in Green Bay at our hotel which was in a crummy green bay suburb with typical crummy suburban offerings. Our hotel had no bar in it, but there was two bars located across the parking lot. One of which allowed someone to bring their dog to the bar with them. Now, I love my dogs as much as anyone, but if you are so beholden to drinking that you can't separate yourself from your dog.... or you are so beholden to your dog that you can't separate yourself for your drink.... You just might have a problem..... However this is Wisconsin, an island in a sea of reality. At any rate we decided to have a pregame drink at the bowling alley bar. It was an ok joint. We had a couple there and then we realized that we had missed the first shuttle to the game. So we had a couple more. And then my brother buys a whiskey shot for me and him. (there's still 3hours until game time) BY the time the next shuttle arrives to pick us up I believe I had in my 2.5 beers, a weak Jim Beam and Diet (I gotta watch my figure) and a shot of fire whiskey? Indeed, I am a happy cheerful Vikings fan. 

We board the shuttle to the game and the driver and the packers fans are being good about the back and forth between us. All except for the say 50 and older packer fans. The younger fans are actually pretty cool and realize that this just isn't their year. Anyway that will be a theme that continues throughout the night. So we get to the drop off point from the shuttle which drops us at a place called "The Bar". No shit. We still have an hour or two before we need to be in the stadium. So naturally we go to "The Bar" I believe I had one beer here but it was a coors light and not my thing so I didn't drink much of that. However, I did imbibe off the flask I had brought with me - Woodford Reserve Bourbon. I am still feeling pretty good. 

We decide to leave "The Bar" early to go see a bit of Lambeau and I have to admit the walk up to the stadium is pretty cool. I enjoyed it. We finally get to our seats in outdoor club section. Pretty nice seats. There are lots of part vikings part packers fans around us. One particularly nice couple sitting next to me as I was on the end of our block of four seats. I sort of offered up that it would be a more interesting game had Rodgers been playing. We agreed and I spent the first quarter and a half having some good football conversation  with the people next to me and in close proximity. At one point one of their players is down with an injury, and there is a commotion going on in our section. Whatever. I am happy slightly browning out Vikings Fan guy. The next thing I know I turn to look at the field and several rows in front of me (there were fully empty rows of seats) is a packer fan who looks like someone shoved a red hot fire stoker up his butt. He is pissed and he is climbing over his seat and coming at me (that's how I saw it). Ok I am no longer happy fun vikings fan guy, now I am "oh shit time to defend myself because for whatever reason it is ON" guy. At the same time there is a red vested security attendant standing at the end of the row, who is asking who is in seat 11. I am thinking "Hey I won a Prize! - is this the lottery ticket winner thing? I am seat 11!" It was not the lottery ticket winner thing and I wasn't actually seated in seat 11. She looks at me and says "I need you and everyone with you to come with me"

I am very confused at this point. 

She hauls us up to the top of the section and starts reading us the riot act about offensive behavior and lewd comments. Ok I had just had my adrenaline shoot through the roof because angry red hot poker in the butt guy wanted to take my head off and I am confused because seconds before this I was having a lovely conversation with the fans next to me, and Jeannie (the attendant lady) is going off on me talking about how they have me on camera being offensive and blah blah blah. I might have gotten a little upset at this point. So I am trying to get through to this lady that I didn't do anything of the sort. I intentionally put my hands behind my back while talking to her because I know the last thing that I want to do is to touch her at all. But my brother and my brother in law are all trying to get me to shut up... which is just frustrating me more and more. They keep stepping between me and her and all I want to do is to talk to her. Apparently I might have raised my voice in my frustration. Uh-oh that's a policeman......... Next thing I know there is a cop standing next to me. Something to the effect of "take it easy or you will be locked up for christmas". So now not only do I keep my hands behind my back but I also go and stand with my back and hands against the wall. I may be a bit tipsy but I know full well to let the cop know that I am in no way going to threaten him. At all. So I notice the cops badge and I address him by name "Officer Meier" I hope to god I didn't call him "Oscar Meyer". Anyway he can tell I have had a bit to drink and I even said to him "Look I am a bit drunk, but I didn't do anything of the sort that is being said." He sort of smiles and takes it in stride. I hear him ask Jeannie (The attendant lady) did you call me over here? To which she says "No. Not me". So there's a bit of confusion between her and Officer Meier about what is going on. Meanwhile the lovely couple and the other people that I had been having conversations with keep coming up and saying "It wasn't them! It wasn't them!" - Keep in mind this is Vikings fans AND Packer fans. So Officer Meier takes all of our licenses and runs them for warrants. After a while he comes back and gives us our licenses back. My brother in law takes some stupid piece of paper from Jeanie and we all disperse..... "What the fuck just happened?" I am still very confused about why I was hauled out of my seat and made out to be some jackass.

I need to cool down so I go and get a bite to eat and a diet pepsi. (I fucking hate pepsi) At this point I am done with the NFL and the treatment of regular fans -It is a thing that had been on my mind the last few weeks. I eventually calm down and I go find a different red vested attendant and I ask them to find me their manager who happens to be a PR member. I explain the entire situation to this person who is a delight to talk to in comparison. I explain that there is no way I am going into another teams stadium and risk my reputation by acting like a jerk. I told her about the "Surveillance Video" and she was like "What? I highly doubt that". I ended up watching the second half of the game with them....

Next post: The Parts I Didn't Know About. 



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The parts I didn't know about
SO here's the parts that I DIDN'T know about and something to watch out for if you go to Lambeau and probably any other stadium. There was a point where one of their players got hurt. The stadium got quiet and after a bit my brother in law started a "Let's go Vikes!" Chant. Nothing about the player being injured or anything like that. But there is this guy in front of him that gets all butt hurt about it and yells at him for cheering because their player got hurt. My BIL explains that he is just cheering for his team. To which the older man in front of him says to him and my other buddy "Well you guys intentionally hurt Aaron Rodgers". My buddy Corey looks at him and says "Buddy I didn't hurt Aaron Rodgers, Anthony Barr hurt Aaron Rodgers! It's called Football! Play Football". I think the guy got heated because my buddy Corey made him sound like an idiot. Anyway they start jabbering a little bit about dirty play or whatever. And then something else happens... There is an  older packer fan guy about 50 behind them that starts yelling "Faggots Yer all a bunch of fagoots! Fucking Asshole Faggots!" and we are pretty sure that's what got the red hot poker up the butt packer fan and his buddies so pissed off and ready to come at anyone in a Purple Jersey. 

I have been happily chatting with a bunch of other people. I know there's some excitement brewing down the row but nothing that seems too crazy and I am loving the story that I am telling. Well apparently Mr. Snowflake you broke my QB guy had gotten the attention of the attendant and gotten us hauled out of there and THEN he went and got the police as well. 

What had me so bent out of shape about the league and about the fan experience is that the people that were in charge weren't paying attention to what was going on in their section - we were two rows from the top of the section where the attendants stand. We were doing nothing wrong except cheering for our team. I was being threatened with being put in jail over the holidays. And I was having my license run to see if there was anything they could hold me on. For being a fan of another team. I keep thinking back on the whole entire thing and I can't help but think how insanely lucky we were to not have been put in jail. That is a disturbing thought to me. Now in the grand scheme of things would it have been a big deal? Probably not. But there was an extreme fail for the people that were supposed to be watching and doing their jobs to know what was going on and they didn't do it. If not for the several Packer fans that I had been talking to at the very least we would have gotten thrown out and possibly had been sitting in jail. 

I don't think I will ever be going back to lambeau ever again. 
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in fairness to Oscar... if you think about running licenses is common practice for all law enforcement when they interact with the public.  its likely just an SOP for them so I doubt you were being singled out in that instance.   The security chick was off on a power trip,  but you will likely find similar stories from opposing fans in Minny.   I think its pretty common for sports security to remove the visiting fans when there is an altercation among home and visitor fans regardless or who started it,  however with the packer fans defending your group it does suck.  

Glad to hear that you have come down from the ledge and that you are back here willing to share... do it more often.

SKOL!!!
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#5
Alcohol is a hell of a drug.

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Hang in there, Mike! Shit happens. Night game = shit ton of time to get shit faced. 
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#6
Hot Poker up the Ass guy was probably Carl Gerbschmidt or his drunk brother Wink
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#7
Wow. That sounds like a nightmare. 

I'm honestly pretty impressed that you were able to keep your facilities in your impaired state.

I'm more impressed that you came back a few days later to give what looks like a pretty fair and balanced accounting.

Safe to say that maybe you aren't done with the league and that maybe Hell hath fury? Wink
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#8
Tell you what - I would have been pissed just like you in this situation. Im a very mild guy, but get a few shots in me and then be wrongfully accused of something will get me going - I would have definitely been popping off a bit pleading my case as well. All in all, you handled yourself fine from what it sounds like. 

But you bring up a good point - just what in the hell was security doing? they were NOT paying attention to the fans like their supposed to be. Probably just watching the game happy they get to be there for free and not doing their job. Had they been paying attention, you would have never been fucked with. Thank God you had some decent Packer fans sticking up for you!
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#9
So...who was sitting in seat "11" anyways?
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#10
Cant expect competence from Lamblow staffers...

Happy New Year, move on to playoff's now.
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