They should have an 'old school'/museum bathroom at the new stadium with urinal troughs/sinks 😛
The Good
- 51-3 - simply the greatest feeling/atmosphere I've ever experienced at any sporting event (or in life?). By halftime was just a big surreal party in the stands "We're going to the Super Bowl!!!"
- 2nd to last game 1973 - OJ ran for over 200 yds in a snowstorm - without that game he doesn't break 2000 the next week. I was 9 yrs old - my neighborhood friend had an extra ticket and my brother and I flipped a coin on who would go and I won
- Of all the games I've been to I will always remember the AFCCG against Denver in 1992 being the loudest - my brother and I were sitting low EZ and I remember trying to scream at the top of my lungs to talk to him sitting next to me and it was impossible - just crazy
- '90 game against Dolphins where fans tore down goalpost and passed a section up to Wilson's box. I remember also seeing fans throwing sections of post over the sides of the stadium and thinking "that seems dangerous" 😛 . Crazy
- '81 comeback vs. Patriots. 2nd half fans were streaming out of the stadium and I told my brother "We're not leaving - it's going to be an Alcoa Fantastic Finish!" People remember the Hail Mary Hooks caught to win, but the catch he made down the middle on the last drive was the greatest sports play I've ever witnessed live - I was in the EZ behind the play and Fergy launches the ball to seeming nowhere, and out of nowhere Hooks just flies into view and lays out with one of the greatest catches I've ever seen - just unbelievable
The Bad
- Cleveland 6-3 - simply the worst sporting experience (life experience?) I've ever had. Freezing cold, historically bad crappy game/teams, crappy seats high in corner of upper deck. We came up from NC and day before the game found out my young son had gotten swine flu but he still wanted to go - he still has PTSD from this game
- One thing of note though from this game is something that would go in the Good (Best) list. As we were sitting there freezing and miserable and questioning our life choices, this guy comes running down the aisle full speed and right at my row - trips - and goes flying like superman parallel to the stairs for what seemed like 20 rows. Dude flies gloriously through the air like a drunk fan superhero, crashes at the bottom - pops up like nothing happened and disappears into the tunnel. Probably the most amazing thing I've ever seen - my son and I still talk about it
- Jax playoff game '96 - the shock, and sadness, and Kelly getting carted off. Walking out of the stadium you just felt it wasn't just the season that was over, but an era
The Ugly?
- Told this story before - one time as a young lad we were walking up out from the EZ after another loss and we pass a lone guy splayed out on the benches with both his legs over the bench in front, and arms wide behind him, head back, semi-conscious - with his dick out, pissing all over himself. The exact tone of disappointment and my Dad's voice is still seared into my brain "Move along, son" - we never spoke of it after