#97 this one's a suprise for someone special

The "surprise" was to get my boyfriend Andrew tickets to a sporting event.  When Groupon had Charleston Battery tickets for half off, I knew I had to get them.  Anyone who knows me knows I am not exactly a sports fan...and to be honest, I don't see the point of sports at all. Athletes have always seemed overpaid to me and the value we place on "winning" and the disgrace in "losing" really bothers me...however, sports are important to Andrew and I am trying to appreciate and enjoy things that he does so we can appreciate and enjoy them together.

We went to the Battery game on April 30th and it was my second time at one of their games.  The first time, I was in elementary school and when the guy in front of me jumped up to catch a t-shirt, he sloshed his giant cup of beer all over my mom and me.  (Perhaps this single event can explain my hatred of all sports?) We had to leave the game.  I was sure this game had to be better than that one, so we arrived and found our seats.

Unfortunately, our tickets happened to be in what Andrew told me was the "soccer hooligan" section.  Some Battery groupie who apparently holds season tickets and hasn't missed a game in several years leads a bunch of other strange looking folks in VERY VERY LOUD chants, screamed rude things at the other team (and at the Battery players) and was just extremely unpleasant to be near. They also have these giant flags they wave. We were surrounded.  The only other "normal" people in our section told us that this was the wrong section for us to be in if we wanted to enjoy the game...so we found other seats....next to about 30 teenagers whose mothers had apparently dropped them off at the game and left them to scream and throw food and harass everyone around them...I sure have a knack for picking seats.

However, despite the screaming people who get way too excited about silly things, we actually had a really nice evening, which ended with me getting a giant cone of chocolate ice cream (and as you know, chocolate ice cream makes EVERYTHING better!)

Providing we can get better seats next time, I might even venture to another game!  Third time's a charm?