she then checked with the side of the fam it affected and came back and told me we had the greenlight to go. i still hadnt told logan at this point because i didnt have the tix in my hand and i didnt know if it would all work out or not so for the sake of not disappointing him, i thought it would be best to wait until i had them, wrap them up and give them to him.
so it was official and now all i had to do was get through the rest of the week before it would truly set in that i was going to see my raiders, for the first time in my life, and i get to share that experience with my oldest. how bad ass is that? so the week goes on and i am pretty much useless at work since its almost xmas and i am itching to get out and make the drive to KC.
i dont recall the exact last time i was at arrowhead but i do recall being in the nosebleed seats. for anyone who's been there knows the top of the stadium feels like its sitting you at a very uncomfortable angle towards the field which when you stand up feels like youre going to plummit to your death. we lucked out and these seats were no where near the top:
Logan at his first NFL game
we werent the only ones wearing silver and black
now i will say that for the most part, chiefs fan is alright. theyre fuckin hammered, but theyre alright. we got to our seats an hour and a half before kickoff which gave us time to look around, grab some grub, drop a deuce, and let the rest of the fans get shitfaced. so i tell logan i gotta go do my dooty and i ask him if he wants to sit in his seat or come with. he opts to sit in his seat. i take him back to our seats and i proceed to the mens room. this s a long one. id say 10-15 mins. i head back to our seats and see he is not sitting there. the folks (chiefs fans) a couple seats down from us who took our pic, informed me that some guy was giving logan a hard time and that he got upset, started crying and went off to find me. i asked her to point out to me who this guy was so i could deal with him later. her husband had gone looking for logan and i went to do the same heading up the steps when low and behold here he comes down the steps tears in his eyes. he explained to me that he was worried because i was taking a monsterous shit that i hadnt come back. i explained to him to stay where he was and that sometimes daddy's a little backed up but that the storm would pass and i would be back out to see him. i asked him about the guy giving him grief and he told me the same thing the gal told me, he said to logan his raiders were going to go back to oakland loosers. i asked him again if this guy was the reason he was upset, he reitterated no, he was scared because i was gone for so long dropping a lung in the toilet.
so we sit back in our seats, i wipe the tears from his face, and then chiefs fan sits down next to me. as he sits, the cloud of beer wafts up from him much like pigpen from charlie brown. so now i know what im dealing with. a 50-some year old drunk chiefs fan. perfect. he makes amends. apologizes to me and logan and shakes our hands and wishes us good luck. then he procedes to bash the raiders, tell us how bad theyre going to loose today and then to top it all of, his excuse for his actions: "hey look at me, im the chiefs fan!" that you are drunkie, that you are. throughout the rest of the game, he's razzing us from 4 rows back. i told logan to just ignore him and not to let the guy ruin our time. at one point i hear him saying to me, "hey! hey bigman!" i simply kept my eyes in front of me and watched my raiders kick the fuck out of his chiefs. but it was difficult though, not to pummel this poor old drunk fuck to whom which i have a 20 year (give or take) age advantage not to mention probably 150lbs weight advantage. but he had the advantages that counted: 70K+ fans on his side and i actually cared if i got thrown out of the stadium for fighting.
the other chiefs fans gave us shit, just as i had warned logan they would but were respectful about it. it was typical hazing, the things that dont bother you. until late in the game, our raiders had made a good play and i jumped and yelled in excitement as did the other silver and black fans around us. the drunk girl chiefs fan next to me elbowed me in the stomach and then proceeded to apologize over and over and over. i told her it was no big deal, not to worry about it. she said it was just a reaction, she was rooting for her team. i told her no worries. perhaps i am too nice. but one thing is for sure, it would take a lot to charge me as the asshole raiders fan.
its not something you get to do everyday, and im just thankful for my first time seeing the raiders, i got to spend it with my son. i am also thankful they won. but even if they hadnt, it would still have been awesome simply getting to see them play. but seriously though, fuck all you fans around us that were giving us shit. and to the douchebags booing us in the parking lot, go fuck yourselves.
and as for if logan had fun or not, i would say this game winning field goal in OT sums it up nicely
JUST WIN BABY!
