Sunday was the longest day of my entire life, or at least it seemed that way. Waking up at 5:45am was brutal especially after getting a not so restful night of sleep prior. It felt like I was 7 years old waiting for Christmas morning...the anticipation of going to the game was so intense that I couldn't sleep. Upon picking Patrick up at 7am I learned he had a similar experience. He immediately gifted me with a Kellen Winslow jersey which I proudly wore all day long. He sported a Kamerion Wimbley jersey so we looked like twinsies.
We arrived in Arizona just before 11am, picked up the rental car and made our way to the stadium in lovely Glendale, Arizona.
Gordon Biersch was
the place to be before the game and it was packed with an even mix of Cardinals and Browns fans.
At the stadium we were regulated to park in the Browns parking lot....I mean Brown parking lot (all the parking lots for this particular stadium are color coded). With the amount of Browns fans at the game, and in that lot, I'm quite shocked that a creative type didn't alter the sign in some way. I should have taken the lead. Next time.
Finally after what seemed like an eternity we found ourselves in the stadium and at our seats. 28 rows up from the field on the 15 yard line. NICE.
The fun part of the story ends there. After kickoff it steadily went downhill with the Browns playing, in my humble opinion, like crap. It really sucks watching your team lose but the pain is magnified infinitely when you travel and see it in person
and have to deal with drunken Arizonans whooping it up. UGH. At least we weren't dressed like this guy....I dubbed him Crazy Dog Bone Head Man.
After the game we went
back to Gordon Biersch to watch the evening game and kill some time before our 9:30 flight out of town....which was delayed. The odd part though, we left Arizona at 10:15 and arrived in Los Angeles at 10:15. Time stood still momentarily on the longest day of our life...
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