Archives for September 2010

Getting tickets to an NFL game these days can be pretty irritating. You’ll be lucky to find a face value ticket to see a good team play, and more often you’re left to scour ebay and online ticket sites that jack up the prices.

Matthew DeCoste was a Patriots fan in New York who was having a hard time finding a ticket to this past weekend’s debacle against the Jets. After tweeting about his frustration the folks at Edge Shave Zone heard his complaints and gave him two tickets to the game as part of their new Anti-Irritation Twitter campaign.

Why can’t more companies give away free tickets to games? Maybe it’s a good time to complain about how irritating it has been finding a ticket to the Pats/Chargers game on 10/24 for me… 

Or maybe I should tweet how irritating I find the Jets in general, tag it with #SoIrritating and see what kind of creative solutions the Edge guys can come up with? Perhaps they could shaving cream bomb the Jets headquarters? That was a popular method of retribution at my prep school.

Anyway, a couple questions with Matthew, who witnessed the carnage in person, below.

How did you become a Patriots fans/any roots in New England?

I was born and raised in Boston so I’ve been a lifelong Patriots fan. From Grogan, to Hugh Millen, Drew Bledsoe and now Brady, I’ve followed the Pats through it all.

What was your overall impression of the new stadium?

The new stadium is extremely impressive. Getting off the PATH and into the gates was pretty seamless. The concourses are large so there is a lot of room to move around inside and the concession lines were unbelievably quick. They stopped selling beer at halftime, so that was a minus. But, overall, it was a great venue to catch a game.

Did you get an “irritation” from any Jets fans?

There were a few Pats fans in my vicinity that were pretty vocal, so they caught most of the trash talk from Jets fans. But, there was a guy sitting in front of me—who admitted he is a Giants fan—that kept turning around and blocking my view with a Jets towel when the Pats had the ball. So that was pretty irritating. Reminding Jets fans that they haven’t won a Super Bowl since the year Nixon took office was fun, though.

What were your most and least favorite moments from the day?

Seeing the entire play of Randy Moss’s unbelievable touchdown catch develop in person was amazing. He made his break towards the middle of the field and Brady identified it, and just threw a perfect lead pass towards the end zone. Randy just putting one hand up, catching the ball, and then never using a second hand to secure it was pretty insane. 

My least favorite moment was the entire second half. The Patriots just slowly falling apart and opening up all of us Pats fans to a half hour (of game time, mind you. More like an hour in real time) of torment from Jets fans was particularly unpleasant.