That sucks Seth. I find that at Fenway, the better my seats are, the less interested the fans around me tend to be.
This is an interesting one. I was thinking about this all throughout the game on Wed night. You\'d have to go to a lot of games in a lot of different seats to get a solid feel. I was actually sitting in the upper upper bleachers Wed night, all the way behind the scoreboard, and we had the full smorgasboard of non-watchers that I listed in the last post. As seats get better I imagine that things tend to swing more towards the business-client side and further from the meathead side/drunkard side. But as seats get better you also encounter more longtime season ticket holders who are great to be around. I think tourists and dates will pay up to the best ticket they can afford, so those are everywhere. I was actually there on some company tickets myself but I always make sure that the clients I bring with me are the type to watch the game with me!
The worst are easily the meatheads (horrible), followed by the non-fan tourists (downright irritating), then the maker-outers (At least some of the time they might care about the game, but when the guy starts boning her with a Fenway Frank it\'s fair game to pour ketchup on them, right?), then the business clients (they\'re usually not bad and are often fans, but they often add nothing either, and when you\'re surrounded by the other 3 types of people, you need anybody left near you to contribute.)
That\'s one thing you don\'t have to worry about at the Patriots, that\'s for sure. (Or I imagine most of the NFL in general.) The whole stadium is season tickets and with only 8 games a year nobody gives away their tickets. Out of 65,000 people at Patriots game, probably 50,000 are the same every week, and they\'re not there to make out with their girlfriend, that\'s for sure. The building is dialed in hard on every play and the subplots of the game and the crowd knows what to do. It\'s awesome.
You\'ve seen the same at Breakfast shows, if you\'ve been to a few doozies of yore. There are those shows where most people stand or sit at the back with drinks and talk and nobody really cares who the band is. Then there are great shows where everyone is up front, tuned in, and reacting where they should be. Which show would you rather be at? The thing that really gets me is that the Sox were pushing to clinch the pennant in game #158 and I got a section where nobody cared. This would be like The Breakfast pulling a dooze at the Fonghoulish Freakout, with the mystical 10-foot-gap in front of the band in full effect all night and nobody really moving at all. That\'s not gonna happen, but imagine if it did. Ugh.
The bottom line is, I am still the founder and president of Pave Fenway. Give us a real park! Not gonna happen, oh well.
