My sister and her husband own season tickets to see the Dallas Cowboys and are generous enough to take two people with them each game. They’ve taken neighbors and friends and Laura and I were the lucky two invited for the December 2nd game against the Philadelphia Eagles. Our seats are just off one end zone but really close to the field and with the huge, 60 yard screen that hangs from above, there are no bad seats in Cowboy’s Stadium.

It was a great game to watch, mostly because the ‘Boys won, but also because we were able to see Tony Romo (he was injured and didn’t play the last time we got to go) and Dez Bryant play. I ate a burrito the size of my head and Laura had quesadillas that she couldn’t finish. The funniest, or most annoying part of the experience, depending on how it’s looked at, was the loud girl sitting in the row in front of us. She only comes to two games a year, and she’s been there both times we’ve been there. She stands the whole time and screams at the top of her (very large) lungs, back up the rows to the people behind her.

Ear-drum splitting doesn’t begin to describe her projections, but they wouldn’t be so bad if she yelled toward the field. She has to turn and yell at all of us behind her. We were told to “Come on, get loud!” We were also told “YEAH!” a bunch of times. We all took turns sitting behind her and none of us tried to make eye contact with her to keep from encouraging her to yell more.

The Eagles are terrible this year so the Cowboys and their fans had fun at their expense the night we went, and it was all a lot of fun. The stadium truly is amazing and views of it from home on TV really don’t do it justice. If you ever have a chance to go see a game, do it. For a lot less money, you can even take a stadium tour that goes out onto the field, into the locker rooms, and even into one of the box suites. Just don’t get any ideas; the suites start around $200,000 a season and go up from there!