Battle of the Bay

For Tim's birthday this year, my dad gave him 2 tickets to see the 49ers-Raiders game. It was a Saturday game which was perfect for us! We had no idea what we were in store for!

The traffic was horrible as soon as we got on the freeway. It took us an extra 2 hours to get to the Stadium. We finally arrived and were greeted by lots of tailgaters- already crazy drunk. The parking lot was already trashed with empty beer bottles and lots of garbage.

We made it from the car to the gate and somehow got stuck in this mess (see picture below). We waited in this group of fans who seemed to be eager to get inside the stadium. After about 30 minutes of constant "NIIIIIIINERS" AND "RAAAAAAAIDERS" chants at the top of people's lungs , and moving less than 1 foot closer to the gate, a security officer finally informed us that this gate wasn't even open. The gates just to the right of this group were open. You would think that the people at the front of the "line" would have seen the open gates and moved there. That's how drunk people were already.

The crazy "line" to get inside the park.

Once we finally got inside, we got to watch the game.

Well, kind of.

It was more like we got to watch the game in between the massive fights going on in the crowd. While we were there we saw 9 fights (or UFC style beatdowns as Tim calls them). People beating the living daylights out of each other. I read that there were other fights in the restrooms, parking lots, and who knows where else.

Tim

After the game we made it through the trashed parking lot to our car and managed to navigate through the sea of people without hitting any of the stumbling fans (not an easy task). We heard later that evening that there were 2 shootings in the parking lot after the game. We were glad we didn't stick around to see them!

Despite the craziness of the night, it was so nice to spend the evening together and watch (most of) a football game.