Are You Ready For Some Football????

On Monday, Novebmer 29th, it was Patrick's birthday!!! Patrick for whatever reason really hates to celebrate birthdays.... especially his own. So this past summer, I found out that the AZ Cardinals were playing a Monday Night Football game on his birthday in AZ. So I HAD to get him tickets. He would think that is the PERFECT way to spend his birthday! He has always been a huge Cards fan... no matter if they are horrible or in the Super Bowl, he is a fan! It wasn't easy to get tickets... they sold out really fast, but I finally found him some on eBay and bought them. So he has known what his present was for several months now, but we finally were able to go to a Cards game in their new Stadium in Glendale. 

 The Stadium is really cool. It's so big, we didn't even see the majority of it, but it was still so fun. 

Here are the ESPN Monday Night Football guys. Patrick says the one on the far right is Steve Young, but I have no idea if it really is. But still, it was kinda fun being at a game that was on TV for MNF!

 After looking around for a while, we finally made the hike... and I do mean HIKE... up to our seats. We were literally 5 rows away from the top. The very VERY top. Gotta love "cheap seats" This is our view from our seats. Still not bad at all for how high up they were!

 As lame as it is, this may have been my favorite part of the night??? A bunch of Marines carried out this huge flag as one sang the National Anthem, they ran it across the field.....

 Look how huge it is??? The size of the entire football field! Notice all the Marines it takes to hold it up?? If you look really close, you can see that they had to lean backwards in order to keep the flag up and to not touch the ground. When they got to the part of the song where is says "... long may she wave..." they made the flag wave up and down and it looked so cool! It gave me chills over my whole body and made me tear up a little. I am just a softy with Patriotic stuff I guess. I loved it!! 

 The Cards Cheerleaders doing their little dance just before the team ran out to start the game.

 Here are Patrick's Cards running out. 

 The halftime show was Lifehouse. It was pretty good, at least it was a band that I know and like.

I have never gone to a NFL game before. I'm not really a huge fan of football, but it is SO MUCH more fun to watch it in person then on TV.  And when you are there, you get the added bonus of watching all the crazy drunk fans, which is almost as entertaining as watching the game itself! By the 4th quarter, that was pretty much all I was doing... watching all the 49er fans trash talking the Cards fans and people yelling at one another about plays, calls, etc. It was getting pretty funny!

*Final score: Cards- 6   49ers- 27

*4 fights witnessed among fans (just where we could see, I'm sure there were more!)

*2 people escorted out of the stadium by Sheriff Deputies

*1/2 bottle of beer spilled on us my the guys behind us. He didn't mean to, but got upset at some bad call in the game or something and had a bottle of beer in his hands and it spilled out as he stood up, and it landed on us. Awesome. Just what I wanted.... to smell like nasty beer the rest of the night! He apologize several times. Stupid drunk fans.

It was a fun night and a PERFECT way to spend Patrick's birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PATRICK!