Gillette

[signbabybrady]

You can always hang in the lot post-game and wait till the traffic leaves. Not sure there will be sell outs this season anyway.

Sold out already. Still like a twenty year waiting list.

 

[203Pat]

Get a good look of the people behind you before the game. Are they drunk middle aged men who look like they're having a bad time? Some of the fans expect to sit on their fat asses for the entire three hours and will threaten you if you dare block the views to which they are more entitled than you.

People will hate on this, but it's happened to me three different times.

I usually get tickets from a season ticket holder that is a friend of the family so the section I am usually in all have known each other for a while. One time some guy who clearly wasn't part of that group asked the people in front of him to sit down because he didn't want to stand to see over them. The reaction was hilarious. The stereotypically thick accents accosting him from all angles. "This guy just came hea to do a book repoht on grass growing" "Why don't you head to a stall in the ladies room and sit down theah" were among my favorites.

 

[1960Pats]

Going to Gillette for the first time this fall. Pending the schedule looking at either September or October. Any suggestions for the smoothest/best experience?

I've been going there occasionally since the beginning when we didn't have any need for tail-gaiting. Back then we tried driving (we were about an hour north) and later we took the train from Boston, which was our easiest option and much faster. I checked by calling my neighbor who I knew was there and we'd beat him by a mile.

Later on, when the kids were older, we started to go to an organized tail-gate party right across the street from the stadium. That ended up being our favorite option. It's called the New England Tailgate and I think it's still around.

Have a great time..

 

[1960Pats]

Sold out already. Still like a twenty year waiting list.

Is football king?

 

[signbabybrady]

Is football king?

 

[Patjew]

The train there and back sucks and should be avoided.

 

[XLIX]

I usually get tickets from a season ticket holder that is a friend of the family so the section I am usually in all have known each other for a while. One time some guy who clearly wasn't part of that group asked the people in front of him to sit down because he didn't want to stand to see over them. The reaction was hilarious. The stereotypically thick accents accosting him from all angles. "This guy just came hea to do a book repoht on grass growing" "Why don't you head to a stall in the ladies room and sit down theah" were among my favorites.

That is an unusually friendly, jovial response. I am not exaggerating to say I have seen fights break out over the whole sit/stand thing.

 

[203Pat]

That is an unusually friendly, jovial response. I am not exaggerating to say I have seen fights break out over the whole sit/stand thing.

Honestly unless there is a kid behind me I am not sitting down for 90% of the game. If you want to watch the game in a comfortable environment stay home.

 

[Triumph]

Going to Gillette for the first time this fall. Pending the schedule looking at either September or October. Any suggestions for the smoothest/best experience?

Try the clam chowder.

Best in the country.

 

[Triumph]

Honestly unless there is a kid behind me I am not sitting down for 90% of the game. If you want to watch the game in a comfortable environment stay home.

Its a chain reaction.

The people down in the first rows stand for whatever reason and subsequent rows follow up to the top.

 

[signbabybrady]

Honestly unless there is a kid behind me I am not sitting down for 90% of the game. If you want to watch the game in a comfortable environment stay home.

Its a chain reaction.

The people down in the first rows stand for whatever reason and subsequent rows follow up to the top.

We are diehards we want to stand and scream the whole game.

But seriously don't be that guy on either side of this debate. Just do what the people around you are doing.

Don't be the stubborn guy standing annoying everyone else just because you feel entitled to be a hardcore fan.

And don't be that guy yelling down in front when the entire section or large portions are all on their feet.

 

[XLIX]

On an unrelated note....

A few years ago I took my Texan girlfriend back home to New England and took her to her first Patriots game. We have been to several other games, college and pro, but this was her first one in the Boston area.

She was amazed at how accurate the Bostonian stereotypes were. Don't get me wrong, she loved it 100% but couldn't believe how true all those jokes about people from Boston are (think Casey Affleck on Saturday Night Live).

Her favorite part - and I swear I am not making this up - was during a break there was a guy behind us singing David Bowie's Rebel Rebel with his own lyrics: "Rebel, rebel..... **** the Jets...."

 

[Patjew]

Gillette really does have a beautiful concentration of Massholes. I love those guys and gals.

 

[Triumph]

We are diehards we want to stand and scream the whole game.

But seriously don't be that guy on either side of this debate. Just do what the people around you are doing.

Don't be the stubborn guy standing annoying everyone else just because you feel entitled to be a hardcore fan.

And don't be that guy yelling down in front when the entire section or large portions are all on their feet.

Going to the games in person is less enjoyable as time passes.

 

[signbabybrady]

Going to the games in person is less enjoyable as time passes.

I miss TB and BB too.

Live will always be the best way to watch.

 

[Triumph]

I miss TB and BB too.

Live will always be the best way to watch.

That's not the reason.

At home will always be better.

 

[BennyBledsoe]

Oh, yeah, unless someone did everything for me... drive, pay, get me food, souvenirs, etc.... there is no way I ever want to go to a football game I care about at a stadium ever again. I'm a quiet, focused person. I don't do the yelling and stomping stuff.

I'm glad I went to one, but that was enough to convince me it's not my scene

 

[1960Pats]

The train there and back sucks and should be avoided.

We had good luck with the train back a few years ago but we weren't tailgaters.

What do you think sucks about it? It was much quicker for us from the north.

 

[Patjew]

We had good luck with the train back a few years ago but we weren't tailgaters.

What do you think sucks about it? It was much quicker for us from the north.

The last time I took it, it arrived late and I missed kickoff. And then you are trapped to take it back which can stink if you want to leave early or hang around later. And it's just soooo slow, at least on the approach from Providence.

 

[Bill Lee]

Oh, yeah, unless someone did everything for me... drive, pay, get me food, souvenirs, etc.... there is no way I ever want to go to a football game I care about at a stadium ever again. I'm a quiet, focused person. I don't do the yelling and stomping stuff.

I'm glad I went to one, but that was enough to convince me it's not my scene

In my fifty plus years of fandom I've only been to one NFL game, at Gillette. I don't think I need a second.

It was great to view the pageantry on game day. Once. It was great to see in person how hard the linemen hit each other and how fast the WRs and DBs are. Once.

What I don't need is billboards filling my visual space with ads everywhere I look, or to have everything go quiet during a thrilling drive so there can be a TV timeout. On top of that, I don't need to waste an entire day fighting through traffic, paying a lot to park, paying a lot to sit, and paying a lot to eat and drink. At least they haven't started to charge for toilets, yet.

I suppose things would be different if I grew up in a situation where friends or family members went to games, but that wasn't the case for me. It was more the opposite. I was the only person in my family interested in sports, and still am. For me it started as a TV sport, and it still is.