A sea of blue, a great crowd, great game. Big Time!!

Only thing I didn't like was the late arriving crowd but that's typical of memphis fans for some reason when it's an early game time in the evening for years be it football or basketball but that's small potatoes. Great crowd and loud crowd!!!!!

(09-25-2015 08:36 AM)BigTigerMike Wrote:  Only thing I didn't like was the late arriving crowd but that's typical of memphis fans for some reason when it's an early game time in the evening for years be it football or basketball but that's small potatoes. Great crowd and loud crowd!!!!!

Unless you left work early, to be able to go home and pick up your significant other/kids etc. and then drive to the game 6:30 is a tough game time on a weekday.

(09-25-2015 08:36 AM)BigTigerMike Wrote:  Only thing I didn't like was the late arriving crowd but that's typical of memphis fans for some reason when it's an early game time in the evening for years be it football or basketball but that's small potatoes. Great crowd and loud crowd!!!!!

I don't blame that one on the crowd. Getting there from work was awful in traffic by the time someone picked up friends or spouses.

Thursday night games in Memphis are tough...everyone trying to get to the stadium in the middle of rush hour.

If we continue to get larger crowds, hopefully more will adopt game day protocols.

We love the additional fans.

And while the typical gang of thugs jumped all over the messenger for this last year...it still matters. Congregating in the stairwells, texting while walking, stopping your walk to text at the portal entrance to the stadium, getting up constantly during plays instead of after a series ends, having circular gang conversations in the middle of the concourse, smoking in the boys room and the concourses...should all be addressed within.

It is simply manners.

It looked like the crowds in the 80s. Great to see!

(09-25-2015 08:44 AM)Mimi Wrote:  If we continue to get larger crowds, hopefully more will adopt game day protocols.

We love the additional fans.

And while the typical gang of thugs jumped all over the messenger for this last year...it still matters. Congregating in the stairwells, texting while walking, stopping your walk to text at the portal entrance to the stadium, getting up constantly during plays instead of after a series ends, having circular gang conversations in the middle of the concourse, smoking in the boys room and the concourses...should all be addressed within.

It is simply manners.

Holy **** I actually agree with Mimi.

(09-25-2015 08:46 AM)tiger2000 Wrote:  

(09-25-2015 08:44 AM)Mimi Wrote:  If we continue to get larger crowds, hopefully more will adopt game day protocols.

We love the additional fans.

And while the typical gang of thugs jumped all over the messenger for this last year...it still matters. Congregating in the stairwells, texting while walking, stopping your walk to text at the portal entrance to the stadium, getting up constantly during plays instead of after a series ends, having circular gang conversations in the middle of the concourse, smoking in the boys room and the concourses...should all be addressed within.

It is simply manners.

Holy **** I actually agree with Mimi.

I know I'm mixing sports here, but I believe that the increase in fan injuries at baseball games is due texting during the game. I was at Wrigley in June, and saw a woman seriously injured by a very catchable foul ball.

Yeah, texting has gotten completely out of hand. NTSB attributes 9 U.S. Deaths a day and over 1,000 accidents...every day.

The noise and the atmosphere of big crowds are so much more fun. Even the passing of beers down the line and everyone acting in concert handing over money for salty nuts etc...is great stuff. Until the salty nuts reach someone texting or web surfing about maybe salty nuts.

Rush hour traffic and the car next to you has a driver looking at heir waist, not the road or other cars etc... The benefits of the hand held technology are losing to the mis use of it. IMO.

I do wish more of the crowd would participate, when we were all up cheering say during 3rd down or after a big play half the crowd was sitting in silence. It also appeared that we have an age group thats not present. Im 32 and it appeared that most everone is older than me. The <35 year old crowd seems almost non existant.

(09-25-2015 08:39 AM)Tiger46 Wrote:  

(09-25-2015 08:36 AM)BigTigerMike Wrote:  Only thing I didn't like was the late arriving crowd but that's typical of memphis fans for some reason when it's an early game time in the evening for years be it football or basketball but that's small potatoes. Great crowd and loud crowd!!!!!

Unless you left work early, to be able to go home and pick up your significant other/kids etc. and then drive to the game 6:30 is a tough game time on a weekday.

Hard for two working parents to get off work at 4:30 or 5:00, get kids from daycare, go home, put on Tiger gear, and drive from Bartlett and then get stuck in traffic at the LB. My family arrived about 10 minutes into the game.

(09-25-2015 11:35 AM)Unfaithful Wrote:  I do wish more of the crowd would participate, when we were all up cheering say during 3rd down or after a big play half the crowd was sitting in silence. It also appeared that we have an age group thats not present. Im 32 and it appeared that most everone is older than me. The <35 year old crowd seems almost non existant.

A lot of that age group sits in the cheaper seats in the endzone. They are all around me.

And a lot of the crowd last night over the 20,000 diehard Tiger fans were probably SEC folks, or grads of other schools, or newcomers to football. Just keep encouraging them to stand up and yell or clap.

(09-25-2015 08:54 AM)Mimi Wrote:  Yeah, texting has gotten completely out of hand. NTSB attributes 9 U.S. Deaths a day and over 1,000 accidents...every day.

The noise and the atmosphere of big crowds are so much more fun. Even the passing of beers down the line and everyone acting in concert handing over money for salty nuts etc...is great stuff. Until the salty nuts reach someone texting or web surfing about maybe salty nuts.

Rush hour traffic and the car next to you has a driver looking at heir waist, not the road or other cars etc... The benefits of the hand held technology are losing to the mis use of it. IMO.

I used to love sitting near the Candy Man and getting rained on with candy after a touchdown.

We have a tradition in our section ~ we will gladly pass your change back up the rows for your beer purchase, but each row gets to keep $5 of it.