It has been 10 years since I took my kids to see the Colts at the Coliseum. I am obviously still angry about it, because this post triggered me.

I also grew up in the Bay Area and have been to several Raiders games over the years, so I knew my son would catch more than your typical smack talk for wearing an opponents jersey. But we had a tradition for doing a senior year trip, and this is what my son wanted to do and how he wanted to do it. His younger sister and younger brother also wanted to wear Colts shirts to support their brother. We ended up taking my son's best friend at the last minute, so I had to pick up an extra ticket in another section. I instructed them to face forward and not talk back. They would have to weather about 15 minutes of smack and it would be over. These seats were about 45 yardline 25 rows up behind the Colts sideline, so not in prime criminal territory.

I start getting texts just before half from my daughter that things are not letting up like I said they would. I go over at halftime as the crowd had thinned out a little bit. They said the major offenders had left and they could handle it.

As the Colts seal the win in the 4th and fans finally start exiting, I went over to be with me kids and these drunken 50 something year old human excrement were still yelling F bombs nonstop at my kids who were having forward ignoring them. When I inform the drunks that these were kids, that normal fan banter ended four hours ago, and that my kids were not engaging so they needed to back off, they let loose with full vitriol. Did I mention they had a huge stack of used plastic cups under each chair?

My daughter starts sobbing, so I physically move her to the other side of me and away from them - the worst were in the row directly behind my kids. One of the drunk ladies reached past me and poked my daughter in the shoulder while dropping f bombs. I lost it at that point and things got very close to getting physical when a couple of their less drunk friends pulled them away and started shoving them up the exit toward the portal. I have posted more detail on this on CB many years ago.

I should never have taken my kids to a Raiders game. I knew better even though it had been a few years since I had been to a Raiders game at the Coliseum. I haven't seen it that bad, but it is a very low class fan. Part of the reason we went to Oakland for a Colts game is driving distance and cheap tickets. $90 on the secondary market 10 years ago (Raiders were in playoffs contention at the time) was less than half what a comparable ticket cost in any other NFL stadium. I wonder why? Yeah, I am a bad dad.

First indication should have been the two tailgaters having intercourse against the side of a car while standing up as we walked into the stadium. In my section (35 yardline behind Colts bench) before the game even started, a half dozen riot cops sprinted down the stairs and about ten minutes later were crab walking a bunch of bloodied Raiders fans in handcuffs back up the stairs.

I am not an expert on NFL fan behavior, but I have been to NFL games in other stadiums (49ers, Chargers, Browns, Bengals, Cowboys). The Coliseum is a cesspool. The last Coliseum Raiders game I went to was 2012 with a colleague. We were both working in the Bay Area and wanted to catch Manning and the Broncos. The thing that stands out to me about that game were the 50 something biker ladies simulating sex with the guys they were with using kilbasas they had just bought.

If you have made it this far and are thinking you will never take your family to an NFL game, that is probably a good idea. But try a preseason game. They are often weeknight or even Saturday. There is no tailgating. It is a MUCH different crowd. Then you can lie to your kids and tell them they experienced the NFL