For Christmas this year Jeremy and I received tickets from Bruce and Leesa for the Broncos v. Bengals game. I have never been to an NFL game before and was super, super excited. It's hard to find home games on Monday nights, so even though we've been in Colorado five years this was my first time at Sports Authority Field. I was a little nervous about the weather forecast for the game: 16 degrees without the windchill. Geesh, that is cold weather! My layering decisions were made even more difficult by the fact that I am nine months pregnant...none of my cold weather gear fits very well. I should be grateful that I can still zip up my coat and that gloves don't need to come in maternity size.
I had to meet Jeremy before the game since he was at work that day. We wanted to go out to dinner but were getting nervous about our timeline. We decided to eat at one of our favorite Mexican restuarants, La Loma. I pulled up before him around and asked what the wait was for two. It was 5:30 and kick off was at 6:30, it was going to be tight. The hostess surprised me by saying there was no wait at all. Fabulous! Jeremy showed up about five minutes later and our waiter came to take our order. We told him that we, like nearly every other orange and blue clad costumer in the restaurant, were heading to the game and we were hoping dinner would be really fast. We ordered our meals and sat back to wait-hopefully not long. He brought out our water and chips, then three minutes later he brought out our meals. I couldn't believe it. I've had fast food take longer than that. We gobbled our delicious food, left him a very nice trip for making our night stress-free, and walked out to catch a shuttle going to the game. We had to wait nearly 15 minutes for the bus to show and once it did we filled it to the brim. I was standing right in the front trying not to fall down the stairs. I couldn't see a thing but it didn't require looking out the window to know that our driver was going around in circles. It is one mile to the stadium from the parking lot and you don't even have to turn off the road. It took him four U-turns and another 15 minutes to get to the game. I was super bummed we missed kick-off, but at least the situation was ridiculous.
By the time we made it to our seats we had missed the first few drives of the game, but that didn't matter. We were sitting on the last row before the box seats which was awesome for blocking the wind and keeping us warm.
Jeremy's staff made us signs to take the to the game so we had to snap a picture to send them as a thank you.
The first half of the game was good, but there wasn't any guarantee we were going to win. Drives weren't necessarily pulling together, there were a lot of turn overs, and we went into half time behind 14-0. We needed to win for a playoff spot so anticipation was high.
During half-time we picked up some hot cocoa to warm up and settled in for what we hoped would be a great victory.
We were not disappointed. The Broncos came back and had a chance to win the game with a last minute field goal...that went wide. The crowd was silent. No one could believe that McManus missed it. Overtime always makes me nervous You just don't know which team is going to rally and pull it out. The Broncos were able to drive down and score a field goal, and we just hoped the Bengals wouldn't make it into the endzone. We were totally taken by surprise when there was a fumble recovery by Demarcus Ware that locked in the Broncos win. There were high-fives flying and the stadium roared. It was loud even as we walked out of the stadium that night. It was definitely a good game to get tickets to and we has so much fun!
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