A Tailgating Veteran's Thoughts on Reliant's New Tailgating Policy

if I can’t go from Blue lot to Platinum next weekend

I kinda like the idea. I know about 10 people that tailgate. 8 of them are girls that just hop from person to person trying to get free alcohol and food, 7 of them couldn’t even tell you who Matt Schaub is. Sucks for the people that really love football and the atmosphere or whatever. But based on what I know, the majority without tickets are a bunch of dumb alcoholics that don’t know and don’t care about football. Seems to be a over-reaction by the Texans, but I don’t really care for people that are just out to smooch free booze . Sorry guys, looks like the female population in the lot will be drastically reduced.

There are so many ways to get into the lots. From Holliday inn to jumping a fence.

Not gonna be successful

Explaining the “tailgate guest ticket policy.” It’s absurd.

I just wrote an e-mail to the ticketing folks. It’s long enough that I might make it a separate post.

to acquiring good players and winning football games…as they do to keeping pussies from being offended and/or inconvenienced, they would have won a Super Bowl by now. It’s a fucking NFL football game, not a goddamn knitting convention. There’s a possibility somebody might bump into you, or spill some beer on you, or, heaven forbid, say the “F” word within earshot. You might even be slightly uncomfortably warm for a period of time when the roof is open. Fucking grow up and deal with it.

On Monday I sent an email to the Texans’ Parking folks where I criticized the way cars were allowed to park, especially where the attendants blocked exits with rows of two (sometimes 3 cars). It was a complete nightmare. Total system wide failure. I didn’t mention tailgating as that wasn’t the issue to me, the issue was a lack of properly trained attendants actually doing their job. One attendant in the Maroon Lot has been sitting on the same chair in the same spot of the Maroon Lot for the past 3 years that I’m pretty sure he’s actually dead and has mummified in a way to perfectly perserve his features. Of course being afraid of the undead I haven’t approached him to verify the veracity of this theory. Needless to say the few attendants out there just don’t seem to know what they are doing (or just don’t care). This change does nothing to alleviate the double and triple parking that was the genesis of my complaint. I shudder to think how this is going to work out when the already slow attendants check each car for a parking pass and actual game tickets.

Prevent anyone in a Cokeboy jersey from entering the premises. Especially when they aren’t the opponent. They’re obviously demonstrating diminished capacity and should be held for observation.

On a serious note, there were an insane number of people in the Blue/Platinum Lots. Amazingly, I didn’t witness a single fight/arrest. The only fights and arrests I saw were in the stadium instigated by people in Southern Oklahoma colors. So my question is, how does the new tailgate policy address these fucking morons?

you cannot hang out with the tailgater’s? I like the tailgate cause my wife and kids really don’t need to see the game that much like me and my son, so we buy tickets to a certain game and she will stay outside with some of her friends or what not. So you telling me she cannot come with my other kids right?

none of the BRBers were any of the LOUD NOISES heard by HQ, I am going to put this out there. The only time i ever hear about fights is when we play Southern Oklahoma. Whomever did complain go to a raiders game you will see that Texan fans are proper gents compared to the Animals kept in that zoo. Do not go to any Soccer event outside of the US, and if the World Cup comes to America (WHICH PLEASE GOD IT NEEDS TO), Stay away from the cities they are being held at. You want to see brawls, wait till you have hooligans from different teams pulling out clubs, bottles, chains and beating each other in the name of (insert team name hear). Honestly, one of my favorite reasons to go to the 1FCK games was to fight… but then again I am a crazy SOB.

i got answers. just got off the phone with my manager.

The Texans are pissed because:
A. a lot of tailgate parties are making a KILLING at the stadium money wise (10 bucks a head, even if only 10 people come by… do the math.)
B. the parties are getting out of control.
C. people are staying 2 and 3 hours AFTER the game.

What happens to the guy that pays cash parking and is meeting a friend that has his ticket? Or the person who has tickets at will call? Pretty idiotic

prepare to have your ticket out. there will be parking attendants (think TSA at the airport) wanting to see em, so make life easy on yourself and have them out. now the funny part is i want to see how they are gonna do the allotments (so far we’ve heard only 2000 passes will be available) on who gets what passes. if history is any indication, the bigger “private” parties will buy em all up, and the outside of reliant will turn into a ghost town… mark my words.

I’ve never been to Houston, much less Reliant Stadium, but I can see this causing just as many problems as ownership hopes to solve.

I can’t imagine that tailgating non-ticket holders were such a huge problem that this kind of overreaction was necessary to solve it.

WOW

Go figure that in Dallas last night, over 50 people were arrested for fighting the night before the Red River Rivalry that were fans of either OU or UT. Should I consider the fact that Dallas and rivalry leads to nearly 50 people arrested every time they’re paired?