We went to the season opener of the UFL Las Vegas Locos last night, it was a lot of fun!  We met a bunch of fun people that we look forward to seeing again at the next home game. I had always wondered what really goes on at the stadium during the football games.  Sure, it is a lot of fun to hang out with your friends and watch games on TV.  You all play armchair quarterback and listen to not-always-so-good-commentary.  The UFL even takes the camera and a reporter in a suit (yuk, it was in the 90s yesterday) and interview players during the game.  Reporter “you carried that ball over 10 yards, how do you feel?”  Player ‘I feel like we are really having a good game.”  Or Player “It was AWESOME!”

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So what exactly happens during commercial breaks on TV.  Nothing, absolutely nothing.  The players stand around, the water is run out to them.  They joke around with the refs.  And the fans, well – they spend their time doing what people do at home.  Drink beer.  Lots of it.

The guys sitting behind us we are blast!  And the more they drank, the funnier they got. It started out as a simple wall of beer.

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Then, they made the first of many beer-amids.

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Towards the end of the night the group had consumed the contents of over 40 of these shiny cans.

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The last beer-amid they tried to build even included donations of shiny cans from others around them, but alas….not so steady hands…..

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Unfortunately, the Locos did not win their season opener – but there is always next time.  Looking forward to the next game.