So, Neal’s coworker surprised us last week by asking us if we wanted to go to the Ravens v. Jets preseason game, which was last night. Turns out the coworker’s wife scored free tickets from her boss. Kind of sucked it was on a Monday, but when would we ever have a chance to go to a preaseason football game for free?!?!

So, last night, we shot down to Baltimore right after work. After mucho stress trying to find parking, we managed to find our friends tailgating outside of the stadium about an hour before game time. We hung out for a little before heading into the stadium for kickoff.

Here’s the deal – my only experience with professional sports is going to baseball games. So, I guess that’s what I was sort of expecting. WOW, was I off, haha.

Attending a pro football game is much more intense, much more rowdy and much less kid-friendly. I realized the difference before we even got to the stadium. And when the Ravens came out onto the field? The whole place erupted. We were still finding the way to our section inside the stadium when this happened, and the sound was deafening.

Our seats were banging. They were season tickets, in the second section. I couldn’t believe what a view we had. One thing Neal and I both found interesting was that the field looked a lot smaller than on TV. Weird.

I’m not going to post pictures of Neal’s coworker and his wife, only because I didn’t ask their permission because I’m too embarrassed to admit I have a blog, hahahaha. But they are super cool people and we had A LOT of fun with them. Plus, it was incredibly sweet of them to ask us to the game. These were $110 seats!

I think this was the huddle right before the QB threw an interception for a Ravens touchdown. It was like one of the first plays (if not the first, I can’t remember). The stadium freaked out. These Ravens fans are for real. Here’s a pic of the touchdown celebration.

And then the male cheerleaders ran out on the field and waved these flags around.

Speaking of cheerleaders, T (we’ll use that abbreviation for Neal’s coworker’s wife) and I were pretty excited to watch the cheerleaders. They were really entertaining! And so tiny! I mean, these girls looked short and petite. They were so cute.

I know, I’m kinda ridiculous.

So anyway, I tried to follow the game as best as I could. It’s easier to watch on TV because the announcers will say right away what the penalty is and if they got a first down or not. So I had to bug Neal a lot to figure out everything what was going on.

We seriously had such a great time. I really paid for it today, though, because I was EXHAUSTED at work. But I’m so glad we said we’d go and it was really sweet of our companions to ask us. I told T to kiss up to her boss some more so maybe he’ll give us more tickets.