Football: Battle of the 'nells

[DeltaOne81]

[quote Scersk '97]Maybe I haven't posted in a while, and maybe I don't post as much as I used to, but, as I've said in the past, this kind of gratuitous thread drift bugs me.[/quote]

Scersk, eLF... eLF, Scersk. There, now you've met :-P

[Scersk '97]

[quote DeltaOne81][quote Scersk '97]Maybe I haven't posted in a while, and maybe I don't post as much as I used to, but, as I've said in the past, this kind of gratuitous thread drift bugs me.[/quote]

Scersk, eLF... eLF, Scersk. There, now you've met :-P[/quote]

Which is, perhaps, why I haven't posted in a while... ::bang::

[peterg]

Kite Hill was "sold out" for tailgating passes well before game time - at least I was told it was sold out when I got there about an hour before kickoff.  The Kite Hill scene was as good as I have seen it in years (leaving aside the wonderful crowds for lacrosse last spring), with parties all over the lot.  CFA, the radion station or someone set up one of those enclosed inflatable mesh sided "bouncing rooms" (I don't know how else to describe it) and there were lots of young children there.  Lots of grills, plenty of beverages, and a lot of wandering from tailgate to tailgate.  It was a fun crowd.

To my astonishment, on walking up the ramp into the tunnel to enter the crescent, the fans ahead of me came to a stop and there we stood, inching forward, while an usher - I'm not kidding - stopped each person coming up the tunnel and asked to see a ticket.  On presenting a ticket, the fan was instructed where the seat was.  Cornell with actual reserved seating for a football game.  Incredible.  If Cornell actually paid someone one to serve as an usher in a stadium where there has not been real reserved seating in the memory of anyone that I know in Ithaca that, to my mind, would be doubly incredible.  Excellent ::nut:: use of resources if that is the case.