Front Row, Upper Bowl
Lisa and I got our football seating assignments today for the new stadium, and while we didn't get exactly what we were hoping for, we somehow ended up in an incredible spot anyway...front row of the upper bowl!
We were hoping to get into the alumni sections, 232 and 231, but demand was so high (good news!) that we slipped all the way to 230 (bad news). This puts us a little further from the 50-yard line than we expected (right around the 15 instead of the 30), and we landed in the backed benches rather than the seats, which is a definite comfort loss.
So why am I still happy with our assignment? Because we got the front row, baby! Row A! They're the same seats I try to get whenever I go to a show. The view is unobstructed, the action is very close, and I can stretch out my legs. Of course, no stage is nearly as wide as a football field, but I'm willing to sacrifice a lot of centering in order to get Row A Mezzanine. If we could have gotten any seat in 232, I would have been thrilled, but it's evident now that it was a pipe dream, so given a choice between seats in 231 or the front row of 230, I would take what we got (though if we had ended up in 230 but not in Row A, I'd be bent!). And our seats are to the far left of the section facing the field, so we're as close to midfield as we can be. All in all, I'm psyched with the result.
Here's where we'll be:
Or if you prefer the real thing:
The seats are split between me and Lisa, but they are technically under her name only, so I guess this means I have to be really nice to her for the rest of our lives, or I'll lose my tickets. Sigh, how exhausting. I need hand.
Of course, this will all be moot when the law firm Chen & Kim gets its suite in the skybox. :)
We were hoping to get into the alumni sections, 232 and 231, but demand was so high (good news!) that we slipped all the way to 230 (bad news). This puts us a little further from the 50-yard line than we expected (right around the 15 instead of the 30), and we landed in the backed benches rather than the seats, which is a definite comfort loss.
So why am I still happy with our assignment? Because we got the front row, baby! Row A! They're the same seats I try to get whenever I go to a show. The view is unobstructed, the action is very close, and I can stretch out my legs. Of course, no stage is nearly as wide as a football field, but I'm willing to sacrifice a lot of centering in order to get Row A Mezzanine. If we could have gotten any seat in 232, I would have been thrilled, but it's evident now that it was a pipe dream, so given a choice between seats in 231 or the front row of 230, I would take what we got (though if we had ended up in 230 but not in Row A, I'd be bent!). And our seats are to the far left of the section facing the field, so we're as close to midfield as we can be. All in all, I'm psyched with the result.
Here's where we'll be:
Or if you prefer the real thing:
The seats are split between me and Lisa, but they are technically under her name only, so I guess this means I have to be really nice to her for the rest of our lives, or I'll lose my tickets. Sigh, how exhausting. I need hand.
Of course, this will all be moot when the law firm Chen & Kim gets its suite in the skybox. :)
posted by Chang Kim at Friday, May 26, 2006
5 Comments:
wow lisa must have donated a lot
why are they under her name instead of yours?
Because I bought our season tickets last year with my own name and the ticket office won't let me put it in two people's names. =P And we wanted the priority from having seats last year - if we changed the names on the tickets, we would've lost the priority.
ah. so no matter how you cut it, chang is lisa's b!tch
If they were under both our names, we probably would have ended up in the middle of 231. Lisa just had extraordinary foresight, that's all.
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