My First Broncos Game

A few weeks ago Boyfriend's friend Kelly offered him her Bronco's tickets. Boyfriend asked if I wanted to go and I jumped at the chance. I had never been to a football game. Now I am not just talking an NFL game, I had never been to any sort of football game. When you tell people this they look at you like you have been living under a rock. How can one be a Bronco fan, live in Colorado for 30 years and never have been to a game?!?!? Needless to say I was very excited! In Colorado we had been having unseasonably warm weather. The last three weekends had been in the high 70's to low 80's. What a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon...in the sun watching football. That whole week the weather was great. Come Friday the temps had dropped about 30 degrees, a bit chilly, but still sunny. Saturday we woke to rain and a high of 38 degrees. I was starting to worry about what it would be like the next day. On Sunday we woke to gray skies, again highs would be in the 30's, but it was not raining. So we threw on the winter coats, gloves, hats and at the last second tossed a blanket in the backpack. We rode the lightrail down because we were too cheap to pay $30 to park, plus we did not want to deal with traffic. It was about a 25 minute ride to the stadium and the closer we got the more my excitement built. It was a cool feeling walking into Invesco Field at Mile High for the first time. You could feel the excitement coming off of the fans. We got there a little bit earlier so that we could walk around a bit, get a few beers and get to our seats so we could watch the teams warm up. Pretty much the same MO we have for Baseball games. The seats we had were on the 48 yard line...sounds great huh? Only down side was that they were in the 2nd to last row from the very top. The seating on the upper level go straight up at a pretty steep incline. You feel as if you are about a mile high (get it mile high...) and that if you lean too far forward that you will pitch straight down. Now I know it sounds like I am complaining...but I am not. The seats were actually great. What you are seeing in the pictures is how the people on the field actually looked. If you have ever been to Invesco field you know it is the loudest place on earth. When the team took the field only about half the seats were filled, but the roar of the crowd made it sound like it full. Once everyone is in their seats the roar is almost deafening. But it is what you expect...the stadium was built to be the loudest in the NFL. Then there is the sound of "Rocky Mountain Thunder", this being the sound of 74, 000 fans pounding their feet on the steel floors every time the opposing teams offence begins a play. It was cold as hell and there was an icy, wet mist spitting from the sky, but we did not care. So how did the Broncos play? They sucked! They started out strong, but you can not expect to win a game when you keep turning the ball over. So they didn't win, but we still had a great time. I really have to thank Boyfriend for treating me to my first football experience.