Sporting has free parking. Because Kansas has lots of vast nothingness. Beers are 3.2 percent max on Sundays, too. Great tailgate scene, but I wouldn’t swap Pay Pal experience.
Be careful what you wish for. Six figure starting price in most NFL venues if you’re not a season ticketholder.
I got a stylish card from the Quakes today inviting me to come back to STH land. It's black with white print, ie kinda hard to read, although I'm sure the 20-year-old intern who designed it thought it was cool. Anyway, the big incentive to re-up? Free tickets to Enchant at PPP. Because that is the way to draw in soccer fans, a winter wonderland. (Translation: they aren't getting the crowds they had hoped for and are way under capacity.) P.S. I think we paid for parking at the SKC game, but the buses to the parking lots were free. For a place with a LOT of space, literally about as nowhere as you can get in a metropolitan area, I don't know why they located the parking a mile or two away.
When I went to SKC (a decade ago; time flies) the innermost lots were for supporters and their tailgating, and then concentrically other season ticketholders and then everyone else. We had a reasonable hike (quarter mile?), but it was all free.
Quick check on Vivid Seats shows cheapest ticket for Niners next home game December 11 is $131 for standing room.
Okay, the far lots are free (I thought the tickets I bought gave me STH parking) and it's under a mile -- I just measured on Google maps -- and it looks like this: Seriously, you are making me walk? I am a Californian for a reason! (Also, that is State Ave, NOT State Line. Missouri doesn't look this desolate.)
I looked it up. There is a place called Mt Sunflower in western Kansas, elevation 4,000+ feet. Highest point in the state! It doesn't resemble a mountain -- it isn't -- its elevation is a function of the western part of the state's proximity to Colorado. Western Kansas is hundreds of miles of speedtrap. Try to resist the urge to hit triple digits on the speedometer because you will get a hefty fine.
Spent a night in a motel in tiny Hays, Kansas circa 1988, driving west from St. Louis off the main highway with a college buddy after my bar exam. Woman at the motel desk asked, “you boys in town for the rodeo?” Rodeo? “We are now!” Outdoors at a local park or schoolyard before maybe a hundred people max. Violence. Manure. Americana.
My closest friend in Chicago grew up in Hays. Whenever I asked her what it was like, she paled and changed the subject.
Same reaction when the kids in my class ask me "Did your team win over the weekend?" Me: "Let's look at page 1 of the handout..."
Speaking of rodeos, we were in Vegas last weekend visiting my dad and there was some big rodeo happening. Hanging out on Fremont Street on Friday I'd never seen more cowboy hats in one place at one time in my whole life!!
We lived in Idaho Falls for six years, and the War Bonnet Roundup was a high point of the social calendar.
My daughter is going to Las Cruces NM for this NYE, and apparently the big thing there is a Chile Drop at midnight. Kind of like Times Square but not,
My Quakes holiday postcard arrived today. In the past I’ve received an actual card in an envelope, so this seems more austere. At least it’s not electronic (yet). And I can’t complain since I don’t send Xmas cards, myself. (Postcard held up by existing frame on windowsill.)
My temporary (and a previous) ticket rep Alyssa signed it. One of the things I like about the Quakes is the personal attention from my reps over the years.