Accountability: Redskins fans, FedEx Field, Excuses, and a 8 game home losing streak.

[LetThePointsSoar]

Dude, I park at FedEx at 8:15 for a 1 PM game. That way I get 4 hours of tailgating in AND I get to my seats before player introductions. For a 4 PM game, 11:30. For night games, about 6 hours before kickoff.

Exactly. Every time I get the chance, I get there @ 6am. Nothing better on game day than pre tailgating at the gate before the gates open for the actual tailgate.

[DM72]

I can be loud and still sit down. I only stand up in 2 situations, if someone is up in front of me or if its a big situation and I need to initiate the standup. The biggest reason I do this is because I'm a tall guy and there are kids and elderly people at the games. If I can see just fine sitting down, I'm not going to hinder someone else's view of the game just for the hell of it. And that doesn't mean I'm not loud either.

Oh please. I went to Buffalo Bills games where everyone stood the entire game.

[Thirtyfive2seven]

People look at you like you're crazy when you yell, scream, and cheer your team at Fed Ex Field. I've seen people actually COMPLAIN and try to get people thrown out for STANDING UP on 3rd and 4th downs, or key situations during the course of the game. I have seen it numerous times - can you imagine that? You're having a great time and cheering and people get an usher to remove you. WTF???

[RFKFedEx]

People look at you like you're crazy when you yell, scream, and cheer your team at Fed Ex Field. I've seen people actually COMPLAIN and try to get people thrown out for STANDING UP on 3rd and 4th downs, or key situations during the course of the game. I have seen it numerous times - can you imagine that? You're having a great time and cheering and people get an usher to remove you. WTF???

Too bad bro. I've been lucky to attend 75 games at the place and I've seldom encountered those problems you describe.

[Thirtyfive2seven]

Too bad bro. I've been lucky to attend 75 games at the place and I've seldom encountered those problems you describe.

Where did you sit? Maybe it depends on the section? Upper deck Section 423 is where I had seats for years.

[Boston Skins]

Oh please. I went to Buffalo Bills games where everyone stood the entire game.

Okay? People sit down at stadiums other than FedEx. I'm the kind of person that could stand for an entire game, but for the sake of not being rude to those around me, I sit. Unless in the conditions I previously stated.

[DCsportsfan53]

People look at you like you're crazy when you yell, scream, and cheer your team at Fed Ex Field. I've seen people actually COMPLAIN and try to get people thrown out for STANDING UP on 3rd and 4th downs, or key situations during the course of the game. I have seen it numerous times - can you imagine that? You're having a great time and cheering and people get an usher to remove you. WTF???

Too bad bro. I've been lucky to attend 75 games at the place and I've seldom encountered those problems you describe.

Upper deck meet lower bowl, lower bowl this is upper deck. It's almost two different worlds.

[Koolblue13]

Oh please. I went to Buffalo Bills games where everyone stood the entire game.

The Bills pretty much blow all of our excuses away. That is an outstanding fanbase and a long time terrible football team. Their weather sucks too.

[Gibbs Hog Heaven]

Okay? People sit down at stadiums other than FedEx. I'm the kind of person that could stand for an entire game, but for the sake of not being rude to those around me, I sit. Unless in the conditions I previously stated.

You can't stand for a full game in an all-seater stadium without being a complete jackass to everyone behind you. If they all want to stand, fine. But the different age range and make-up of a crowd often doesn't make that possible. The only way around that is for the Redskins to introduce standing sections for the most vocal of fans. But I doubt that would get past the safety certificate for an all-seater stadium. (Within the seated sections. I appreciate they've gone someway toward that with the standing party decks.).

There's a time to stand, and a time to sit. It's not like you can't be just as vocal sat down.


---------- Post added October-4th-2012 at 06:38 AM ----------

People look at you like you're crazy when you yell, scream, and cheer your team at Fed Ex Field. I've seen people actually COMPLAIN and try to get people thrown out for STANDING UP on 3rd and 4th downs, or key situations during the course of the game. I have seen it numerous times - can you imagine that? You're having a great time and cheering and people get an usher to remove you. WTF???

That's just plain stupid. You should know exactly the type of environment your entering when you attend a football game. If people can't stand up and get involved in key situations, what's the point in attending in the first place? And if the Redskins stewards throw people out for that then they need to learn about a football crowd too. If it was persistent, then that's one thing. But what you mention is a complete different thing again.

The same way people who take kids complain about bad language. It's a darn football game with all the passion and emotion that entails. You can't expect people to curb that emotion in the heat of a game. The decent among us try when kids are in the vicinity, but the moment of the game often takes over. Until such a time as the Redskins introduce a family section, which would be another great move the organization could make to improve things at FedEx; folk need to appreciate the environment their taking their kids into. And not expect everyone around them to change for them. Rightly or wrongly, a football game is just about the only place where that is acceptable due to the emotions and passion involved.

Hail.

[Annonymous Source]

It is frustrating to continue to read threads like this. I know of no other team in all of football who has sucked ass as long as the redskins yet still sell out every game.

The 12th man has been more than fair. Remember our 5 game win streak to make the playoffs in Gibbs 2? Those crowds were electric specifically the giants and cowboys games

I guess the 12th man needs to be louder for a 9-7 win over the Rams? Or maybe if we'd cheered louder AJ Green might not have caught for 200 yards last week, starting on the very first play of the game.

Actually, I think it's so quiet because nobody wants to spill a drop of their $12 beer.

Zoony those all sound like excuses to me. I think you just need to show up earlier to the game and cheer louder. Buck up soldier!

[martytheman]

People look at you like you're crazy when you yell, scream, and cheer your team at Fed Ex Field. I've seen people actually COMPLAIN and try to get people thrown out for STANDING UP on 3rd and 4th downs, or key situations during the course of the game. I have seen it numerous times - can you imagine that? You're having a great time and cheering and people get an usher to remove you. WTF???

Yeah.. I know what you're talking about. Last year for the girls game I was in the endzone dream seats, and of the ENTIRE row, I was the only one yelling and screaming like a madman, making noise for the D.
The people next to us looked at me like I was from another planet... and they sat in their seats the whole time and didn't utter a peep, except to ask the hotdog guy for a water or coke.
What a couple of clods. At least they didn't say anything, just gave me disapproving looks... sad.

[RFKFedEx]

I've never seen an usher remove anyone from the stadium. I've seen the PGPD drag people out after fights, etc. but not the ushers.

[Thirtyfive2seven]

Upper deck meet lower bowl, lower bowl this is upper deck. It's almost two different worlds.

yes! Exactly. Sometimes when I feel like actually enjoying the game I sell my tickets (because the upper deck is full of fans from other teams anyway (they all sit around me every game) I move to the lower bowl. the lower bowl is the ONLY place to enjoy the game in my opinion.

[yellow41]

I think the fanbase as a whole gets unfairly criticized. Hard to compare to RFK because the stadiums are completely different and more importantly, there has been a 20-year culture of mediocrity that was exactly the opposite in the 80s and early 90s.

That said, one thing that I will say is that there is no excuse for fans missing kickoff. I've been to almost every home game over the past 5 years and one issue is that fans simply prefer to finish their tailgate instead of watching the start of the game. As far as the traffic being an excuse, there's a simple remedy there too: leave earlier!

Maybe these will change when the team starts winning consistently.

[Lombardi's_kid_brother]

Actually Paul Allen had sound engineers design the roof overhangs to reflect sound back down at the field. Not that expensive at all in the design phase.

And it has created a loud stadium that is totally over-rated as a homefield advantage. Look at their home field record the last three years.

---------- Post added October-4th-2012 at 03:08 PM ----------

Exactly. Every time I get the chance, I get there @ 6am. Nothing better on game day than pre tailgating at the gate before the gates open for the actual tailgate.

Christ,that sounds awful.

Who wants to spend 7 hours in a parking lot?