# How Many National Football League Games Have You Been To? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 23, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-football-league-games-have-you-been-to/689102 "2014-05-23T16:44:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-football-league-games-have-you-been-to/689102/1 "2014-05-23T16:44:39Z")
I’ve been to two: once at Soldier Field, c. 1989. The temp at kick-off was 20F, with a 20MPH wind. I watched the better part of the game from the monitor in the men’s restroom. Bears 20, Lions 10. The other was at [at the time] the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis; the Rams beat the Bears but I don’t remember the score. Poll to follow. ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-football-league-games-have-you-been-to/689102/2 "2014-05-23T17:26:56Z")
I’ve never made it to an NFL game, but I did attend one USFL game. I saw the Baltimore Stars play the New Jersey Generals. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-football-league-games-have-you-been-to/689102/3 "2014-05-23T17:28:40Z")
One or two Baltimore Colts games. Four or five Seahawk games. I can’t think of any others. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-football-league-games-have-you-been-to/689102/4 "2014-05-23T18:35:58Z")
Two. Cleveland Browns in or around 1990. Washington Redskins in or around 1954 ---
**Author:** ![Lowdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Lowdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lowdown)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-football-league-games-have-you-been-to/689102/5 "2014-05-23T19:26:16Z")
One. 2011. I bought my family tickets for Christmas, thinking none of us had been. It turns out only my wife and I hadn’t been to one. Kind of a buzzkill, but that was made up for when the Bills beat Tebow and the Broncos 40-14. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-football-league-games-have-you-been-to/689102/6 "2014-05-23T19:41:59Z")
Friends had Jets season tickets so I went to probably about 5 games with them back in the 80s. One Giants game back then when my high school band played half time. Two Giants games more recently, one in a luxury box. Games are just too expensive. Every seat for the Giants is a season ticket. So you have to go through ticket brokers. Also went to one Jersey Generals game and saw Herschel Walker. ---
**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-football-league-games-have-you-been-to/689102/7 "2014-05-23T19:43:45Z")
250+ We had season tickets for the Saints for around 10 years. I’m not much on crowds these days. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-football-league-games-have-you-been-to/689102/8 "2014-05-23T19:45:31Z")
My family had season tickets to the New Orleans Saints from 86 to 96. Some of my fondest childhood and adolescent memories. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-football-league-games-have-you-been-to/689102/9 "2014-05-23T20:12:20Z")
I’ve been to a couple Bears preseason games and one regular season game. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-football-league-games-have-you-been-to/689102/10 "2014-05-23T20:27:57Z")
One - Jets vs Patriots on Thanksgiving of 2012. The Jets got creamed, but I got to see a guy with the same last name as me score a touchdown. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-football-league-games-have-you-been-to/689102/11 "2014-05-23T20:51:13Z")
none. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-football-league-games-have-you-been-to/689102/12 "2014-05-23T22:00:51Z")
I think I’ve been to 6 games. Do I get bonus points for 2 of them being Thanksgiving games in Dallas? ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-football-league-games-have-you-been-to/689102/13 "2014-05-23T22:10:52Z")
> [@Doyle](#): > > 250+ > > We had season tickets for the Saints for around 10 years. I’m not much on crowds these days. Not doubting you but 10 years at 8 home games is only 80 games… ---
**Author:** ![Southern\_Yankee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/southern_yankee/32/2800_2.png) [@Southern\_Yankee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Southern_Yankee)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-football-league-games-have-you-been-to/689102/14 "2014-05-23T22:11:59Z")
I’ve been to about 20. 3 Giants games when I lived up north and 16 or 17 Panthers games the last 10 years. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2014, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-football-league-games-have-you-been-to/689102/15 "2014-05-23T22:40:45Z")
One preseason Bears game, one Cardinals game, and the rest Packers. One in SD, two in Lambeau, and the rest in AZ (all against the Cards, of course). Worst one was the Sept one in Sun Devil Stadium. Try sitting on the sun-side in 110+ heat. I thought I was going to par boil. To make it worse-the Cards won. Discomfort AND humiliation! ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2014, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-football-league-games-have-you-been-to/689102/16 "2014-05-24T00:46:26Z")
Redskins, Cowboys, Patriots…closer to 20 than 10. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2014, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-football-league-games-have-you-been-to/689102/17 "2014-05-24T02:52:40Z")
One. Lions vs. Jets. My only real memory of the game was that nose tackle Jerry Ball was taken out by a cheap shot to his knee. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2014, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-football-league-games-have-you-been-to/689102/18 "2014-05-24T03:47:26Z")
One. Dallas Cowboys on Thanksgiving in 2006. My sister was in the color guard that was on the field with Carrie Underwood. That was the game that TO dropped a ball into the Salvation Army Kettle as a celebration/donation. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2014, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-football-league-games-have-you-been-to/689102/19 "2014-05-24T04:09:23Z")
One. Redskins at Panthers. My friend won seats in a luxury box, so all I paid was gas and parking. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2014, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-football-league-games-have-you-been-to/689102/20 "2014-05-24T23:07:49Z")
Three. - Chargers way back in the mid 60’s, at Balboa Stadium, San Diego, when (IIRC) their logo was still a cartoon Knight with Lance on a Steed; Q: would this have even been an NFL game? - Chargers vs Eagles, mid 80’s, Jack Murphy/Qualcomm stadium - Chargers vs Browns, early-mid 90’s, JM/Q. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-national-football-league-games-have-you-been-to/689102.md?page=2)