bad experience at Wake Forest

wncvolfan · 09-11-2007, 01:12 PM

This past Saturday Mama and I went to the game in Winston Salem between Wake Forest and Nebraska. We got there about 9AM and parked across the street from Groves Stadium. The place was full of Husker fans. Real nice people, by the way, and overly generous with their beer.
The game started at 12:00 and it was about 95 degrees in the stands. At the half mama and I went down to the concession area to smoke, get a cold drink and simply cool off for a whilein the shade.
I stood in a line for 15 minutes to get drinks and when I finally got there they told us they had run out of cold drinks and bottled water. I found out that was the same story all over the stadium. Those idiots actually started selling cups of lukewarm tapwater for $3.00.
Can you imagine the misery of all those people sitting in the stands dressed in either black or red t-shirts full of tailgating beer sitting in the broiling hot sun (no shade) with nothing to re-hydrate themselves.
Several people were carried out of the stands from heat exhaustion. You'd think that a school that wants to compete on the big time level would be able to anticipate how much water and soda they would need, considering the fact that that area has been stuck in a heat wave for over 6 weeks.
It was a pretty good football game between two better than average teams but lousy facilities and fan service.
Doubt I'll ever attend another game there, even if the Vols were playing WF, (heaven forbid).

droski · 09-11-2007, 03:03 PM

Nebraska fans are unquestionably the nicest fans i have ever met in my life.

wncvolfan · 09-11-2007, 05:38 PM

I couldn't believe how many of them showed up for this game. I know they have a national fan base but most of them I talked to had made the drive in from Nebraska, almost 1600 miles! They didn't talk smack about what the Big Red would do to Wake but about how they expected the Deacs to give them all they wanted and possibly would beat NU. They're very realistic about how they compare now to the monster teams of the 90's. But they still travel anywhere to see their team.

It came out that a lot of them had bought WF season tickets at a hundred bucks a pop just so they'd be sure to get into the game Most of them, instead of selling the rest of the game tickets on EBay, and knowing that Wake plays Army next, got together and donated them to the Fort Bragg military hospital in Fayetteville and to underpriviledged people in the NC Piedmont.

I thought that was pretty cool.

**hohenfelsvol** · 09-11-2007, 05:44 PM

They weren't selling you the tap water. They were selling you the cups.

cotton · 09-11-2007, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by droski

Nebraska fans are unquestionably the nicest fans i have ever met in my life.

The only experience I had with Nebraska fans was not so good. It was at the UT-Nebraska Orange Bowl, so it was most likely a bunch of South Floridians who decided that Big Red was their team de jour, but they were as obnoxious as any fans I have ever seen. Several were escorted from my immediate area.

I'm actually relieved to hear that this was not representative of their fan base.

hmanvolfan · 09-11-2007, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by wncvolfan

It came out that a lot of them had bought WF season tickets at a hundred bucks a pop just so they'd be sure to get into the game Most of them, instead of selling the rest of the game tickets on EBay, and knowing that Wake plays Army next, got together and donated them to the Fort Bragg military hospital in Fayetteville and to underpriviledged people in the NC Piedmont.

I thought that was pretty cool.

That is very cool!!!

defaultusername · 09-11-2007, 10:17 PM

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Originally Posted by hmanvolfan

That is very cool!!!

I'd like to see some UT donors get together and do something like this!!! Get the stadium full of wild hillbillies for the Bama games!

haha, just joking, but that is a terrific thing they are doing with those tickets!

wncvolfan · 09-12-2007, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by hohenfelsvol

They weren't selling you the tap water. They were selling you the cups.

I might have been parched but I wasn't crazy. I sucked it up until the game was over and then downed 2 big bottles of Gatorade end to end at the car.

I know how that works. I sold beer for the city during Bele Cher in Asheville this summer. We were selling 16 ounce beers which had to be poured into 16 ounce cups. Every night at closing the city not only inventoried the unsold beer but the counted the damned cups, too. And the count had better match or else.

JTrainDavis · 09-14-2007, 10:21 AM

Thats how it worked in fundraisers for Hockey when i was a kid. We had to pitch lemonade at fairs, and they counted the remaining cups in relation to the money in the register to assure that nothing was given away, or, Heaven forbid, drank by 10-11 year olds who were standing around a cart for 6 hours for the benefit of some vendor on a 95 degree day.