Funny Penn St. family in front of me

Submitted by ribs1 on

This is a bit of a long story but my ticket partner and I thought it was pretty funny.

Our tickets are in section 41.  2 rows behind the handicapped section.  We have great seats as there is a big aisle in front of us and we are right next to the exit.  The other benefit of this area is that there are 2 exits per section making traffic lighter.  Anyway, I show up early to watch the band, flyover, etc.  A family of 4 PSU fans show up a few minutes after me.

Right away, they are having a discussion with the usher and he seats them in front of us.  It turns out they had somehow purchased handicapped tickets, but the handicapped section was full so the usher seated them in the next row behind.  Seemed liked no problem at first and they seemed nice enough.  The women turned to me, worried that she missed the band, but I explained to her that about 150 extra band members come out early and sit in the stand.  The band would be out in a few minutes.

Another 5 minutes go by and she gets the usher to come over.  She is upset that she purchased handicapped tickets so she could be right at the rail so her kids could see.  She wanted the usher to relocate them to somewhere that her kids could see better.  The usher let her know that she was pretty much in the best seats in the area just behind a large aisle.  He let her know that her kids could stand up, and that most of the people in the handicapped section in front of them would not be standing up.  She didn't seem satisfied with this answer but sat down anyway.  After the band and about 5 minutes into the game she blows up and goes over to the usher again.  He calls the supervisor of ushers and he comes over and explains the rules of able bodied people holding handicapped tickets.  They calm down for about 5 more minutes when she finally stands up, says this is bullshit, rounds up her husband and kids and leaves.  A few of us gave her a little golf clap.

Thats the whole story.

ribs1

September 27th, 2016 at 12:17 PM ^

It's not hard to see at all.  I bring my kids all the time.  I would say behind the wheelchair row is the best seats in the house except the wheelchair row.  My kids don't really care that much, they just like all the excitement and noise.  Her kids (and her husband) didn't seem to care either.

Wolverine Devotee

September 25th, 2016 at 9:44 PM ^

I think I saw them as I was nearby in 40 at row 49 which is the second to last before you hit the wall behind you with handicap seating.

There were a couple of psu people nearby. Silent.

I love it when the opposing team's fans are silent because of what's happening.




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Yo_Blue

September 26th, 2016 at 7:42 AM ^

I sat with Wilton Speight's brother and two friends from Virginia who attend school in South Carolina.  They came up for the game.  His brother, looks exactly like him (same height, and most importantly, same hair).  Nice kids who enjoyed their visit and was impressed by the stadium and the spectacle after being to numerous SEC venues. One of the other guys, who I believe was Wilton's cousin wore a #3 Michigan jersey with "SPEIGHTITI" on the back.  He said the company wouldn't put an active player's name on the jersey.

That's my "cool story bro" story for the weekend.

The Fugitive

September 25th, 2016 at 9:45 PM ^

the guy directly behind me kept yelling "BRING OUT THE CHRISTIANS" before PSU took the field.

I'm assuming it was directed at the Penn State administration/former coaches or something but I was under the impression JoePa was Catholic but when in Rome, I guess.

I wanted to remind him that several of our athletes were religious and Harbaugh is fairly outspoken about his faith but this gent didn't seem like logic would register with him.

LSAClassOf2000

September 25th, 2016 at 10:21 PM ^

I will be honest - this idea sort of intrigues me. I think we could come up with something that would be realtively witty and in the vein of what the blog would expect. It could be kind of ...well....a humorous sports fanblog equivalent of the old creature features from television long ago (anyone else remember TV20 in Detroit airing these films?). 

Victor70

September 26th, 2016 at 1:20 AM ^

I had to run out of the room as the opening camera view slowly panned up starting at the feet of a (now I know probably rubber suited) Godzilla-ish monster becuase I was too scared to see the face.  I thought it was channel 50 WKBD though, but then I could be mixing that up with "The Ghoul."