One of the guys from the Community Men's Bible Study Group that I co-lead has season tickets to the Ravens and earlier in the fall, he asked several of us to go with him. Since most of the home games were on Sundays, I knew I would need to take a vacation Sunday to go. So, I decided that yesterday would be the perfect day while coming to the end of a two week vacation.
We left his house at 8:30 (he wanted to leave at 8 but one guy was late) because he is handicapped and needed to get a parking spot in the handicap lot which is very near the entrance to the stadium that we needed to take. So, we were fortunate enough to get the next to the last spot in the lot (actually it was on the grass median between the lot and the street). Arriving around 10:30 for a 1 p.m. game meant that we had lots of time to kill, so we sat at the back of his vehicle and chatted until the stadium openned and we could go in.
We got in the stadium in time to see the warmups and all of the pre-game. I was amazed at the see of purple! 70,000 people filled the satdium and talk about loyal support! (I only wish the church could figure out how to connect with so many people and how to engender that kind of commitment to the cause of Christ)
What a game it was... Ravens won 55 to 20!
We left at the begining of the 4th quarter because it was easier for my friend to navigate the crowd and we wanted to go across town to a bar to meet one of the players for dinner. We found our way to the Power Plant and LUCKIES Bar and watched some other games while we waited. Finally Jah Reid, # 76, a tackle out of Florida came to have dinner with us. That was cool! Especially for a friend's 8 year old son who got to sit next to Jah and who will be getting his Ravens jersey and hat signed by the team today!
What a neat experience! Deifinitely blessed to have it!
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