1st NFL game you attended?

[Inquisitor95]

1979: My dad managed to get end zone tickets to the Cowboys-Rams playoff game. Dallas had home field throughout the playoffs, and though they played well enough to win, gave up a late touchdown and lost. Needless to say I was very disappointed. And the world was denied a third Steelers/Bradshaw - Cowboys/Staubach matchup.

It turned out to be Roger Staubach's last game.

 

[Center Ice]

Somewhere around 1990 Tampa Bay vs Green Bay in Tampa. Played in the sombrero with their ugly orange unis. TB got slaughtered!

 

[PDay8810]

1966....My Dad was a high school football coach and worked a little part time scouting for the Cowboys back in his day, and took me opening day to the Cotton Bowl for my first pro game against the NY Football Giants.

September 18, 1966
Dallas 52 - NYG 7
Bobby Hayes 6 catches for 195 yards. Don Meredith 358 yards on 14 of 24 ( Dad wrote these stats on the back of the pennant he bought me that day..my most prized football possession today)

I was hook, line, and sinker from that moment on.
1966 was the first of 20 consecutive winning seasons in Dallas

 

[Hank Kingsley]

1966....My Dad was a high school football coach and worked a little part time scouting for the Cowboys back in his day, and took me opening day to the Cotton Bowl for my first pro game against the NY Football Giants.

September 18, 1966
Dallas 52 - NYG 7
Bobby Hayes 6 catches for 195 yards. Don Meredith 358 yards on 14 of 24 ( Dad wrote these stats on the back of the pennant he bought me that day..my most prized football possession today)

I was hook, line, and sinker from that moment on.
1966 was the first of 20 consecutive winning seasons in Dallas

Loved Bob Hayes. Loved those Cowboys. 1966 was the first year I saw them on TV, playing GB in the final. Up here it was all we got. I was 11.

The next year was the Ice Bowl. When Starr slipped past Pugh I was crushed.....

 

[RP-29]

I can't seem to remember which game was my first, but I do remember my son's first... two years ago versus the Vikings. It was a disappointing snoozer through three quarters, then Flynn led the Packers back from a 16-point 4th Q deficit to force OT... only to have the game end in a lame 26-26 tie. [Rodgers was out with a broken collarbone.]

I took him to his first NCAA game this year - the Badgers annihilated Rutgers 48-10... a much more festive and pleasing result.

 

[Cobrabit]

I'm not sure on the date, but believe it was either late '80s- early '90s game at RFK stadium against the Vikings. All I remember was it being just my dad and me (mom at the hotel and I have no clue where the older brothers were), a "stadium" jacket because it was cold as hell, getting a couple bags of peanuts and having a blast as a 10-ish year old.

My family wasn't into sports (I'm the only one with any athletic ability or fan interest), so I'm not sure how or why we got tickets, but it was my first NFL game. I've only been to a few since that day with tickets from the wife's uncle who works for the Eagles.

 

[Tainthappening]

Packers vs Steelers on Christmas Eve 1995. Thigpen drops a TD in the end zone to give Green Bay their first division crown in 20+ years.

He is still on my Christmas card list.

I was at that game as well... end zone (opposite corner) from where he dropped the pass.

 

[Ricky Roma]

Super Bowl XVI. Upper deck end zone.

 

[bt08]

Super Bowl XVI. Upper deck end zone.

hopefully that cost you less than six thousand dollars and one cadillac car?

 

[Southieinnc]

Candlestick Park - Patriots at 49ers. Steve Grogan against some rookie named Montana.....
Beautiful November day - shirts off - blue skies. Scoreboard announced blizzard in Boston.....

 

[Rambulance]

Sunday, December 8th 1991

Bears vs Packers at Soldier Field

 

[Southieinnc]

1985 Patriots vs Seahawks

It was a close game, Hawks lost 17-20... I remember staying at the hotel the Patriots were staying at... I went down to the Main Hall there and the Patriots were there walking to dinner and a few of them stopped to sign autographs and take pictures... I was able to take pictures with Andre Tippett, Craig James, Irvin Fryar, John Hannah, Ken Sims and Ray Clayborn... I was only 15 years old so that was a very cool experience...

Did you set off the fire alarm?????

 

[ATL96Steeler]

1st NFL game...Falcons vs 49ers in '83...Fulton County stadium...one of the few wins the Falcons ever had vs the 49ers.

1st Steelers game...@ MIA...'84...the old Orange Bowl....drove down from Tampa the morning of the game, 1st time on So. Beach...I know PIT lost, but was too stoned and hung over to know many details. Those were the good ole days, carefree, no wife, no kids, no debt.

 

[Nasty_Magician]

Oh man, it was the Jets vs the Houston Oilers back in December 1996. The Jets were 1-15 that year, the Oilers were all ready to move to Nashville, there was maybe 20,000 people in the stands, it was cold and raining but we were in the mezzanine so it worked out. Jets lost badly and the crowd was miserable but it was still a great experience.

 

[HaroldSeattle]

Watched the Seahawks three times in 1976. I believe it was the 49ers, Cowboys and Browns, but to be honest it's all a blur. Me and my brothers would drive from Idaho to Seattle to see professional football, but it was the fact that Seattle ( there fore the northwest) had their own team that made it a big deal. Didn't even mind that they were bad, after all, they were a expansion team.

Good times!

 

[mick7-1961]

The next one

 

[beardown07]

Pathetic kinda, but 2003...Bears @ Seahawks.


Kordell Stewart and Chris Chandler were the Bears respective QBs. Bears lost by a TD. Shaun Alexander killed em.

Had awesome seats tho...7th row, 15 yards line

 

[Hank Kingsley]

Watched the Seahawks three times in 1976. I believe it was the 49ers, Cowboys and Browns, but to be honest it's all a blur. Me and my brothers would drive from Idaho to Seattle to see professional football, but it was the fact that Seattle ( there fore the northwest) had their own team that made it a big deal. Didn't even mind that they were bad, after all, they were a expansion team.

Good times!

Those early years... when they were NFC, AFC, NFC.....

I sort of almost liked them then.

They were inconsequential....

The good old daze.....

 

[PDay8810]

Loved Bob Hayes. Loved those Cowboys. 1966 was the first year I saw them on TV, playing GB in the final. Up here it was all we got. I was 11.

The next year was the Ice Bowl. When Starr slipped past Pugh I was crushed.....

the 66 championship game was also a hair away from a Dallas win

wouldn't that a been something? 6 years from expansion and playing in the first SB

oh well....adds to the 55 year mystique.

 

[HaroldSeattle]

Those early years... when they were NFC, AFC, NFC.....

I sort of almost liked them then.

They were inconsequential....

The good old daze.....

Yeah those were the good old days and now the Seahawks are in their golden era where they kick ass and take names. Really happy to live long enough to see it happen. Saw the Cowboys golden era, the 49ers and the Steelers and I guess the Pats, now it's our turn, how sweet is that? Really sweet. Hoping for another SB victory, could happen and that's pretty sweet also.