Really? Like how many games do they play all year? 13...14..If you can't handle it..that's pretty sad.
Maybe you should just leave the city all together! St.James area is ALWAYS busy...and not just on Bomber game days.
It's not that I can't handle it, it's just annoying. Your point about the area around Polo always being busy is irrelevant. I'm not talking about vehicle traffic.
I'm talking about retards crossing busy streets on foot, at random places, and almost causing traffic accidents. I'm talking about drunken idiots stumbling around at night after the games making a bunch of noise. It's irritating.
A lot of people in my neighbourhood (again, I'm in the West End, not St. James, but a LOT of people going to and from the Bomber games will wander up and down Ellice to their cars, which are parked on residential streets) have little kids, myself included. Kids who are usually trying to sleep by the time the game is over and don't need some brain-dead football fan yelling "WOOOOOO" down the back lane and waking them up.
I think, and I'm sure this is going to piss a lot of you off, that if it was a sport I actually liked, it wouldn't bother me nearly as much. If the arena was still there and people were coming in and out of Jets games, I would be a lot more accepting.
Football, however, is near the top of my list of all-time worst sports ever created. Everything I love about hockey is completely absent in football.
Here's how a football game seems, to me:
-10-second play happens.
-Players stand around for 8 minutes
-4-second play happens.
-Playersstand around for 10 minutes
-Play doesn't even happen because no one catches the ball.
-Players stand around for 9 minutes
...ad nauseum.
I have seen exciting plays in football, usually when a guy actually catches the thing and runs with it, but they're few and far between. There's just SO much stoppage that I can't get into it. Hockey has a lot of whistles too, but then it's right back to the face-off and action continues....not brief play, a bunch of time spent lining back up again, brief play, lining up, etc.
Mind-numbingly dull.