Gerryatrics
01-16-2006, 01:56 PM
It was overcast, wet, dark and overall not the best conditions for picture taking, so the quality of most of the pictures, quite frankly, sucks. They are shrunk down to 20% of their original size, which also doesn't help. The pictures have not been touched up at all, if you have a problem with the levels or think some of the pictures should be cropped or whatever, I'll e-mail you the originals and you can take the time to fix them. All that said, here's my little report.
Tickets sold out in about nine minutes for the game, but I managed to snag one. I had to wake up at some ungodly hour of the morning, I think around 9:00 AM, to get ready for the game. I headed to Bremerton and got on the ferry to Seattle.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f148/DC_TORN/CoastGuard.jpg
Somewhere shortly after departure a couple of Coast Guard patrol boats started shadowing the ferry.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f148/DC_TORN/CoastGuard2.jpg
They took up positions on either side of the ferry, any time a boat started to pass the ferry one of the boats would race ahead, intercept the boat and escort them past. It was cool, but it made you wonder if they were doing it because it was a random patrol, training, or because there was a specific threat against the ferry. Fortunately the ferry, and thus I, did not blow up.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f148/DC_TORN/SpaceNeedle.jpg
As you can see from this picture, the weather sucked. It was overcast, but it didn't actually start raining until around the time the game started. Anyway, that's the Space Needle as seen from the ferry pulling into Seattle. You can sort of see the 12th Man flag.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f148/DC_TORN/Tailgating.jpg
There aren't a whole lot of large parking lots around the stadiums, so the biggest collection of tailgaters I saw was in this parking "strip" between rows of warehouses. The tents went all the way to that red building. There were only two tents that I saw that were Redskins fans, but there were a large knot of fans about halfway through. I guess they were huddled together for protection, you know, herd mentality.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f148/DC_TORN/Horsies.jpg
I never really noticed, but apparently Seattle Horse Cops wear capes.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f148/DC_TORN/BlueThunder.jpg
The Blue Thunder Drum... group of some sort. Not really the most impressive collection of percussionists the world has ever seen, but they aren't too bad.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f148/DC_TORN/BlueThunder2.jpg
An action shot of Blue Thunder before they reached the Stadium.
Tickets sold out in about nine minutes for the game, but I managed to snag one. I had to wake up at some ungodly hour of the morning, I think around 9:00 AM, to get ready for the game. I headed to Bremerton and got on the ferry to Seattle.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f148/DC_TORN/CoastGuard.jpg
Somewhere shortly after departure a couple of Coast Guard patrol boats started shadowing the ferry.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f148/DC_TORN/CoastGuard2.jpg
They took up positions on either side of the ferry, any time a boat started to pass the ferry one of the boats would race ahead, intercept the boat and escort them past. It was cool, but it made you wonder if they were doing it because it was a random patrol, training, or because there was a specific threat against the ferry. Fortunately the ferry, and thus I, did not blow up.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f148/DC_TORN/SpaceNeedle.jpg
As you can see from this picture, the weather sucked. It was overcast, but it didn't actually start raining until around the time the game started. Anyway, that's the Space Needle as seen from the ferry pulling into Seattle. You can sort of see the 12th Man flag.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f148/DC_TORN/Tailgating.jpg
There aren't a whole lot of large parking lots around the stadiums, so the biggest collection of tailgaters I saw was in this parking "strip" between rows of warehouses. The tents went all the way to that red building. There were only two tents that I saw that were Redskins fans, but there were a large knot of fans about halfway through. I guess they were huddled together for protection, you know, herd mentality.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f148/DC_TORN/Horsies.jpg
I never really noticed, but apparently Seattle Horse Cops wear capes.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f148/DC_TORN/BlueThunder.jpg
The Blue Thunder Drum... group of some sort. Not really the most impressive collection of percussionists the world has ever seen, but they aren't too bad.
http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f148/DC_TORN/BlueThunder2.jpg
An action shot of Blue Thunder before they reached the Stadium.