Sitting On The Other Side
The first half, I sat in the student section in Ross Ade Stadium with my friends and enjoying the Purdue versus Central Michigan game. I was surrounded by a lot of drunk, annoying students who thought they knew what they were talking about while they were screaming belligerently to the football players and referees. Number one, drunk people are just generally loud and annoying to everyone around them, especially if they are sober. Number two, drunk people just fall over everybody that is near them in the stands. They do not care if you are their friend or not, they will just rely on you for support, trying to make it through the whole game. Number three, if you are lucky, you will get stuck in front of people who like to talk about politics while intoxicated, and man, that sure is a fun topic to discuss while people are not all with it. There are some perks about being around drunk people at the football games though. They bring life to the crowd. They are usually the ones who are starting the chants, keeping you up to date on what is going on in the game, and they are bluntly honest about anything and everything. Football games would not be the same at Purdue University if there were not drunk people walking around dressed up in their messed up costumes.
The second half of the football game I went and sat on the opposite side of the stadium with my parents, grandma, and cousin. I was getting a little tired of standing by a drunk guy that kept on stepping on my feet and screaming in my ears. I figured it would be way calmer over on that side, considering that was where a lot of the parents were sitting with their young children, but I was completely wrong. I figured older adults would be a bit more responsible for their actions than the students were. I sat down and starting watching the game, and all of the sudden a guy sitting in front of me was screaming defense like I have never heard it said before. I mean, it was slurred, annoying, and out of control. That was strike one against the “adult section”. Strike two happened when the two guys sitting behind us started talking about politics. When I say they are talking about politics, they are not just having a civilized conversation about them, they are disputing every little topic that is brought up. I was thinking to myself, people never grow up!
So my point is, it does not matter where you sit in the stands at a football game here at Purdue or anywhere else, you are going to get the same type of people around you no matter what age. I personally experienced both sides of the stands today, and there was not that much difference at all. I think in the student section it is a little bit more understanding why they are acting the way they are. I mean that is part of the college experience, but adults should not act like they are in college again. They are passed that stage. Adults just need to face the fact that they are not a young college student who can just go out and be belligerently drunk.
2 comments:
I feel the same way. College students being drunk at a college football game is to be expected. When you see adults at a college game just as intoxicated or even more so, it's a bit disturbing. I personally don't see why people feel the need to be intoxicated and make fools out of themselves, but who am I to judge? I just feel that when adults act like they are still in college it shows that they are headed into their midlife crisis and are trying to re-live the past. Let us have our time, go and make new memories for yourself.
I read this and didn't even have to read the whole thing before I knew exactly what you were saying about drunk people being very annoying. I once went to a concert and their was this group of people behind us who were very intoxicated. The sad thing was they were older men and women, not teenagers. The completely wasted lady then decided she would use me as an arm rest during the concert. I turned around to the guy next to her and asked him politly to get her off of me and he did so. Not even 10 minutes later once I started enjoying the concert she decided to use my friend as her arm rest instead. Once again we asked her to get off and she responded "Can't you tell when an old lady needs to rest?" So we politly told her that she could sit down and rest when she then said she didn't want to sit down. So we started getting angry and told her if she leaned against us once more we would get security. So they decided to move to a different section. The whole point of this is that it's one thing for drunk teenagers to do it and talk back, but it's a completely different story when they are adults.
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