Crazy Stadium Experience on Sunday

[panthers55]

I sit in 544 and rarely have any issues. I remember a few folks asking us to sit at the beginning of the San Fran game but I started to.laugh and said that wasn't going to happen. The difference sounds that you were the only ones standing in the lowers. In the upper deck most folks stand on third down on defense.  Then again some of the drunk fools stand and yell on offense too so go figure.

[KCat]

43 minutes ago, SixMileDrive said:

I'd don't want to go into too much detail here on the off chance the people sitting near us yesterday are huddlers. I would rather not have to deal with that group again.

We stand in section 205 75% of the time and have never had anyone say anything.  Just surprised that you had trouble.

[SixMileDrive]

15 minutes ago, KCat said:

We stand in section 205 75% of the time and have never had anyone say anything.  Just surprised that you had trouble.

Out of curiosity, which side of 205 are your seats closest to? Almost no one was standing on the left side but I think more were standing on the right.

[KCat]

2 minutes ago, SixMileDrive said:

Out of curiosity, which side of 205 are your seats closest to? Almost no one was standing on the left side but I think more where standing on the right.

Right side half way up.  Have had those seats since 1997.

[SOJA]

I was super black out at the Arizona divisional round game a few years back and got told by a dad that he was going to have me kicked out for being rowdy. Then again I was being extremely obnoxious- it was playoffs after all. 

[TheSpecialJuan]

haha

[Toolbox]

blame the stupid ass policies of JR who allow people who happen to stand and cheer to be thrown out for petty ass reasons..

[davos]

We actually did a PSL switch-out bc of idiot fans.  Was in 336 since 97 and never had much issues.  

What provoked my fam to switch seats was less actual fans and on one end - legit older drunks who were not fun beligerent (If anyone is near 336, it's was the dude in the half skins/Panthers "Peptis" jersey) and the other end were the wine and cheesers.  No one seemed to just be a normal fan in the section. They're in 347 nowadays when I visit and it's always been a solid time.  

Hate to hear the 200s under fan'domed.   

[Wowbiggulps]

Same thing happened to me during the wild card playoff game against the cowboys in 2003/4.  

[General_Purr]

Some people go just as social event with their family to play politics with other wealthy families.

 

I have seen it. But on the another hand some people are annoying af to sit around. Not saying thats you guys, hope you have a better time next time!!!!! Keep pounding

[2plankingpanther]

8 hours ago, SixMileDrive said:

My fiancee and I flew into Charlotte from Minneapolis this weekend to visit friends and were pretty excited that Carolina was playing a home game while we were in town. We're both NC natives and huge Panthers fans who have been to BOA on numerous occasions. We ended up finding some reasonably priced tickets in section 205 and were excited to see our first live game in two years.

After the first drive of the game, we left our seats to get drinks and an older man next to us grumpily asked if we were going to be getting up "this much" the entire game. We thought that was a bit weird, but kind of ignored it. A few minutes later (maybe five minutes into the game), we were asked to sit down by some people a row back and several seats over. The game had barely started and half the crowd in the stadium was standing at this point. There were no people in the seats immediately behind us, we'd traveled over 1,000 miles to see the game and weren't too excited about sitting down in general, but especially not onto scorching hot seats in 90+ degree heat, so we basically said no. That didn't go over very well and after a short spat, an older lady told me that they were PSL owners and could have us removed from the game.

We ended up sitting for a bit, but weren't comfortable and it was really ruining our experience so we resumed standing a little while later. Once again we were asked to sit. I had a pretty good idea where this as going to go, so I was pro-active and spoke to the ushers to confirm that we were okay in standing for a decent portion of the game and also to head off any issues from the wine and cheese group that wanted us gone. The ushers sort of laughed at us and told us were were fine, that of course we could stand as we were at a football game and that no one could have us removed.

Shortly after halftime we were asked to sit by someone else (maybe four rows back?) before they started to yell at us and threatened to have us kicked out of the stadium. I went down to the ushers again and asked to be moved. They said they couldn't do anything, but security heard us talking and told me they they had received several complaints and found a empty spot at the handicapped rail and told me we could move there, but if there were "any more issues" that we would be removed from the stadium. From his tone, I have zero doubt in my mind that we would have been kicked out for standing if I hadn't been proactive about dealing with the situation. 

I went back up to our seats to grab my fiancee and a group of about 15 people started shooting us the bird and yelling at us as we walked away. I found out that my 120lb fiancee had apparently been being harassed by a crowd of people the entire time I was gone. I still can't believe the reaction we were getting. We've gone to tons of games before and never had issues like this. We weren't going out of our way to bother anyone and were keeping pretty much to ourselves.

After we moved, we had numerous Panthers fans drop by from the section to say words of support. A couple of Vikings fans wanted to get videos with "the guy who was boo-ed out his seats by his own fans for standing". This whole ordeal has been especially painful considering I'm going to have to face all the Vikings fans at work tomorrow here in MN who are going to be asking me about how the game went. I'd heard people tell stories similar to this, but I didn't believe that it could be so bad. I'm still pretty shocked about what happened.

I was a little more obnoxious at the game and almost got kicked out but those fans(the ones you were dealing w/)are assholes,i wish there was a way to get them booted out instead!

[CRA]

8 hours ago, SixMileDrive said:

I'd don't want to go into too much detail here on the off chance the people sitting near us yesterday are huddlers. I would rather not have to deal with that group again.

I doubt many of the "sit down and be quiet" movement are active huddlers.  

[Cary Kollins]

If that ever happens again to anyone reading this, take pictures of these assholes so we can shame the crap out of them on social media. They deserve it.

[uncfan888]

I wish someone would try to tell me to sit down..  I'm glad I've never had that problem in my section. 500s are where it's at