This^^^
BTW, it would appear that your son and DIL are the brains of the family.
I have not watched a game this year, save a Packer game, but you already purchased the tickets, so go with no shame. See pic below (note hat).
Posted on 10/09/2017 8:50:40 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU
My husband is (was) a HUGE Steelers fan. I mean MEGA GIGUNDA fan since childhood to the point of having a tattoo with the Steelers old school emblem. AS for myself, I couldn't care less--not a big football fan to begin with. I prefer hockey but I digress.
My son and daughter in law are HUGE Packers fans. They are conservative, however, they try to overlook all the stupid anti-Trump protesting/kneeling that is going on just because they like football.
Earlier this year before all this anti-Trump protesting from the players, I purchased 4 very pricey NFL tickets for Heinz field (Steelers vs Packers) plus two pricey hotel rooms and a pricey parking ticket. We had gone on a trip such a this a few years back to Lambeau Field
Now hubby does NOT want to go and wants me to sell the tickets. Which we probably won't be able to get at face value now anyway.
Son and DIL still want to go for a rare outing (they have full time jobs, hubs has a full time business of his own plus a part time job and I have the same scenario)
For sure, this will be our last game ever if we do go.
What would you do?
#37
Ah...I misread. I thought it was four season tickets.
Well, as other posters have said, enjoy the hotel, and if you go to the game, you can make it your last one.
Go see Pittsburgh. It's a great town: Carnegie Museum, Science Center, Sports Center (right across the street from the Science Center) Bird Actuary, Phipps Conservatory, the Mon Incline, also hourly river tours of the city are very reasonable.
My Dad took me to my first Steelers game in November 1960, and I have been a YUGE fan all my life -- in the very long decade before they became a great team -- so I feel your husband's pain. I turned off the Steelers after Tomlin and what is apparently a handful of angry militants forced Alejandro Villanueva to perform a public humiliation for coming out of the tunnel. Antonio Brown is one of them, and according to a story my wife read, he is now causing on-field problems for the team. I've never like the guy because of his antics. Naturally he hates America.
Disgraceful.
Excellent idea. Do this.
> You are the type of person who gets an argument started then stands back and enjoys while it escalates aren’t you. <
Not at all! Going to Primanti’s is part of the Pittsburgh experience. And asking for a sandwich without fries enhances that experience.
(That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.)
Burn the tickets so no one is sitting there, and let the hotel know why you are canceling your reservations.
Copy this post, minus the question at the end, and send it to the hotel, the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Green Bay Packers, the NFL, Vice President Pence and President Trump.
Let them know it’s their right, and your right to tell them what you think of them disrespecting the entire country and politicizing football.
We all know it was about the Concussions. What happened to the lawsuits? Oh the NFL rolled over the DOJ and now they have been politicized.
Hmmm burn $2,600 worth of game and parking tickets. . .
Briefer sign could say:
go “past “ Pittsburgh and go to Bedford, antiques, good restaurants. The 9/11 memorial is around there also.
Sell the tickets to the highest bidder. Include the winning bidder must include a patriotic video denouncing the NFL’s actions.
The Shenksville 9/11 Memorial is about an hour and a half away from Pittsburgh.
Selling Steeler tickets is a no brainer. You won’t have any problem selling them.
Sports team groupies make an investment. It declines in value. She can't get their money back. Tough noogies. It's called reality. Deal with it. Hardly worth a vanity post on FR. Grow up. And nobody on FR cares how many full or part time jobs the husband, the wife or the kids have. Or how many businesses they own. Why would we?
BUT make a deal with your son and DIL that you will do something together with whatever the hubbie chooses to do (i.e., he has top control of the agenda for rest of that weekend).
This^^^
BTW, it would appear that your son and DIL are the brains of the family.
I have not watched a game this year, save a Packer game, but you already purchased the tickets, so go with no shame. See pic below (note hat).
“Instead find some unbathed winos, get them drunk, and send them into the game.”
Literally Laughing Out Loud!
Your already out the money so either go or gift a deserving family that has never been able to afford to go....... If ya do go make a point of telling everyone you encounter its your last use of said mode of travel, hotels, restaurants, etcetera till the NFL can separate sports from politics. Voting with your dollars is just as important as voting for polidiots ......
My opinion only.
Sooooo you and I are going to the game ? Whoo Hoo !
Going to Primanti’s IS the Pittsburgh experience. Anyone who goes to Pittsburgh without getting a sandwich at Primanti’s hasn’t really been to Pittsburgh.
I think half the city cycles through there every day.
I have eaten there twice. Great food, just don’t make any “special requests” concerning the sandwich.
“(That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.)”
You do that. ;)
BTW, I think that old lady won’t be happy unless she dies on the job.
She obviously loves the place.
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