[quote name='lslmustang' date='Oct 11 2005, 01:02 AM']I just got in from Jacksonville. Sounds like a good thing I wasn't able to hook up with some of you but unfortunately, I have a bad story from the game for myself!! I was attending with 2 friends and her son (25 year Navy guy). The friend with the son is going through chemotherapy for breast cancer and had her last treatment on Friday (yeah!) but she has no hair so we painted her head orange with black stripes. Unfortunately, in Bengal gear and actually most times, she's not very feminine and was constantly being mistaken for a guy. That's happening allot and not necessarily at Jacksonville only... anywho... she and the other friend go up to get another beer and smoke a cigarette. We were in the south end zone in the Bud Zone. while walking and not saying anything, some guy PUNCHED HER IN THE BREAST!!! (fortunately is was below her port). He was lucky she is very weak from chemo as she looked at him and he just stood there so she punched him back in the face. The security guard sees this and she asks him, "did you see him hit me in my tit?" He just say to her.... move along and we never found out if anything happened to the guy but she never saw him again. We were seriously harassed in a very unsportsmanlike way. I was an aweful experience. Her son almost got in numerously fights because people kept called his mom "he". There were a few nice fans in front of us and we also were around several other groups of Bengal fans. I'll post pics later and maybe you all can play "where's waldo?".
Was anyone else disgusted by the Jag's team mascot's antics? The NFL is supposed to support good sportmanship and gets upset by players dancing after a touchdown but it's OK for the mascot to kick a fake bengal mascot in the head and drag a stuff tiger around and jump on it and kick it? Pretend to shit on a sign that was calling Chad Johnson an ass that he had been carrying around? I can't believe the NFL allows that violence and clearly the fans and from this thread, the cops, find violence acceptable at their games. Then this brings me to another thing... this Bud Zone place... everyone there didn't have to stay in there but hung out at the top of the section so anytime you left your seats, there was so many people crowding the isle, you had a hard time getting anywhere. They clearly don't worry about the fire code like they do in Cincinnati. It was a mod scene at the top of the section where you go to get drinks, food or go smoke.
My friend who was hit is also on anticoagulants but fortunately, this guy was pretty wimpy and so far, she hasn't had any complications. But she was shooed away and couldn't have pressed charges if she wanted to.
In my section in PB, visiting fans are never treated anything close to how badly we were treated. There were a few cool fans but I would classify most of them as assholes.
Hope others had a better experience. I did see a whole lot of Bengal fans there and when I post my pictures, you'll see a whole section (pretty far away) that was almost all orange. It was a beautiful sight!
Who-Dey!
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sorry to hear that LSL glad you and your family are ok though from the trip now your in a safe city!!