I failed this weekend in posting. I was a little busy. Friday night, I watched on NFL.com the sad results of the Dolphins’ game.
Saturday morning, I went down to Capital City Baptist Church to give a 3 hour youth ministry conference to the youth leadership team there. It is an English speaking church who is looking to jump-start its youth ministry. So, I spent the morning with them, sharing about philosophy of ministry and giving them some ideas as to what they could do. Saturday night, the youth group of Dios Es Amor was supposed to go to a concert, but that got postponed until next week.
Sunday was an all day workday. We went to church in the morning, went out to eat (at the new Sbarro’s), spent the afternoon with Rigo, and went back to church for youth group at night (more about that later).
So this is probably one of many posts about the football game that I went to last night. I’ve already mentioned that it was the first regular season NFL game outside of the United States. I had so much fun. We got there really early, so we had time to check out the stadium, which was easy to find (surprising here). The parking was good, and we had decent seats (general admission upper deck). You could see pretty well from where we were.
The stadium holds around 110,000 people for a soccer game, and the official attendance at last night’s football game was 103,467. It was the largest crowd for an NFL game in history. The Mexican people are really great spectators, and we did the wave about a million times.
The halftime show was really cool, with regional dancing and a “celebrate Mexico” theme. Hundreds of people participated in the halftime show, and it was really good.
Some things that are different here than in the US: 1. They sold ramen noodles as concessions (also…donuts, Domino’s pizza, tacos, and bags of chips); 2. The food was relatively cheap (30 pesos, or $3 USD for a personal pizza); 3. EVERYBODY went crazy when they announced that Mexico’s soccer team had won their game (the US football players had no clue); 4. We left in the middle of the 3rd quarter, and there was nobody in the parking lot; 5. Stadium parking only cost $4 USD; I am sure there will be more as I have more time to think about it.
If you want to see my pictures from the game, click here.
Well, this is it. I’ve got my ticket, church is over, and we are getting ready to go to the game. I’m excited, and I hope that the game is exciting. If you want, you can watch it on ESPN tonight at 8:30 Eastern Time. If you’re hoping to get a glimpse of me, good luck. My tickets are in the upper deck. But, they tell me you can see well from anywhere in the stadium. We’ll see.
By the way, this weekend is the first ever NFL regular season game outside of the US, and I have tickets, because it will be played in Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca. I am going with my friend Rob and his son. It’s going to be a blast. There is a lot of hype about it on the web, so if you want to check out some of the information, here are some links for you.
Related Links: “NFL Regular Season in Mexico“; “First Ever International Regular Season Game“; Estadio Azteca; Ticketmaster Mexico; ESPN
In Spanish: NFL in Mexico; NFL in Spanish
