I've been to many Eagles games over the past 31 years of torturous sports enthusiasm. I've had many good times and as any Eagles fan can attest, many painful times as well. Heading into the season this uyear, I was filled with optimism (strange for a Philadlephia resident/fan) and was ecstatic when i was able to get Redskins tickets for the Sunday before Christmas. If we survived the Mayan apocolypse, this was sure to be a great game with playoff implications! Needless to say, I didn't think when I purchased 4 tickets that I'd basically be tearing up $240. Due to a..... ahem, "lackluster season," ticket prices were driven through the ground and you can practically walk up to the gate with a $20 bill in your hand and get in. With that being said, that's NOT why I'm rating this event so low.
What REALLY irked me about this game was that the vendors and stadium staff as a whole gave up. They didn't even try to make this a favorable experience. We got into the game and I've never seen a more skeleton squad of vendors and ushers. In our section, not a signle vendor came up for the entire first half (and I suspect later, but I got so mad we left after halftime.) Finally, at the end of the 1st quarter, I went down to get a beer and went to 3 different stands to get one. I was told that they were out of beer because no one had come to restock them. On the third stand, I finally found a place that had Miller Lite, only. The sold out 2 customers after me and cut off beer sales in the 2nd quarter.
Look, if you're going to trot a poor product out to the field, at least try to entertain people at halftime and make the experience while in the stadiuma s good as it can be. I will not be purchasing single game tickets next year.