Last night I had the privilege of attending the Wake Forest-Florida State game at Grove Stadium, er, BB&T Field. I went with my uncle Frank James and my cousins Jeff and Chris James. To say that we had some nice seats would be an understatement. That picture you see to the left was taken from my seat with an Olympus Stylus 710 with a 3X Zoom lens, which is to say the seats had to be good for the camera to get that picture.
The Deacs won 24-21 in a tight, fairly sloppy game. My biggest regret is that I wasn’t using the video capability of the Olympus when the Deacs scored their first TD. It was an 83 yard run by Josh Adams that started right in front of us. Here’s a link to some video I did shoot.
On the weird front there was a guy sitting somewhere in front of us who was cutting some of the most horrifically smelly farts you could imagine. The odor was so bad that it wafted over several rows and the ladies behind us got so fed up they left before the fourth quarter. The guy seemed to burp them out whenever an exciting play happened so you couldn’t help but inhale them as you cheered. Before the ladies left they informed us that the smell had been happening all season, so I feel for the season ticket holders who have to attend the games knowing that they’re going to be dealing with a stench that could peel paint.
On the good luck front as we were walking through the parking lot to get to the stadium a couple of girls in a golf cart stopped and handed us some free chicken sandwich meals from Chick-fil-A. We’d been planning on getting dinner before the game but didn’t have time so we readily took the freebies. The sandwiches were still hot and quite tasty so my hat’s off to the Chick-fil-A marketing people and the young ladies they hired to hand out the freebies.
This was my first Wake football game and you can count me as hooked. Grove Stadium, er, BB&T Field is a great place to see a game and offers a fantastic atmosphere if you disregard stinky in our section. If you get the chance I highly recommend you go.
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My seats weren’t quite as good, view here:http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/viewPhoto?uname=jimcaserta&aid=5120294959899847457&iid=5120294994259585842
but were still good. Photo via my cameraphone.
The game was sloppy to start, but Wake took it to them in the 2nd half. As a gator I can always enjoy seeing fsu lose.
The atmosphere is a lot different at Groves than at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium aka the Swamp.
How about that traffic getting in though!