R I S E ___ U P ___ D A R K ___ S I D E (2024)

[CardNots]

I am hoping for a little better play from the Suns. But, not expecting a whole lot better.

I like surprises more than validations

 

[ASUCHRIS]

*This office closed until further notice*

The funny part is even the skeptics here are DYING to grasp on to any glimmer of success, yet are still attacked relentlessly by team Pollyana. Lucy pulls the football every time.

 

[oaken1]

Hello Darkside my old friend...
Imagine meeting you again.....

I turned the game off with 10 minutes left in the fourth quarter.

 

[blindseyed]

Hello Darkside my old friend...
Imagine meeting you again.....

I turned the game off with 10 minutes left in the fourth quarter.

Made it further then I did lol

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Hello Darkside my old friend...
Imagine meeting you again.....

I turned the game off with 10 minutes left in the fourth quarter.

Can't turn off the game when you are at the game. You just soak in yet another teams' fanbase celebrating in your stadium. Sigh.

 

[ASUCHRIS]

Can't turn off the game when you are at the game. You just soak in yet another teams' fanbase celebrating in your stadium. Sigh.

You are a glutton for punishment my friend. You couldn't pay me to go to a game these days. Drive out to the Westside for hours to watch our team get pummeled with a stadium full of opposing team fans? Yeah, no thx.

 

[ajcardfan]

You are a glutton for punishment my friend. You couldn't pay me to go to a game these days. Drive out to the Westside for hours to watch our team get pummeled with a stadium full of opposing team fans? Yeah, no thx.

I passed on having season tickets last year for the first time since 1994. I went to three games. This year, I split the season with a friend who has tickets.

Yesterday, I realized that was dumb. The seats were 3/4 full and I was somehow surrounded by Washington fans. The game experience sucks ass compared to SDS. Even when it was so hot.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

The game experience sucks ass compared to SDS. Even when it was so hot.

I miss the SDS days, too.

 

[ASUCHRIS]

I passed on having season tickets last year for the first time since 1994. I went to three games. This year, I split the season with a friend who has tickets.

Yesterday, I realized that was dumb. The seats were 3/4 full and I was somehow surrounded by Washington fans. The game experience sucks ass compared to SDS. Even when it was so hot.

Yeah, I was a season ticket holder in the first season in the new stadium. Between the drive, a bad team, and feeling like I was in a war zone with all the fights inside and outside of the stadium, it was an easy choice to dump the tix right away.

 

[Krangodnzr]

Fire them all. I'm done.

 

[Krangodnzr]

How do you change your title? I'm no longer team Murray. Done with the guy.

 

[ajcardfan]

I miss the SDS days, too.

There was at least a camaraderie among the ticket holders at that time. And you actually felt like the team appreciated you. They had so many give aways. Small things, but it still meant something. I still have my VandenBosch jersey. I think there were three jerseys they gave you the choice of that year, KVB, Boston and someone else I am forgetting. Lassiter? Aeneas?

Every game I have gone to this year has had different people in the section. There isn't even one person I have seen at two games. Used to be you knew who would be there and you shared the experience.

That is all long gone.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

There was at least a camaraderie among the ticket holders at that time. And you actually felt like the team appreciated you. They had so many give aways. Small things, but it still meant something. I still have my VandenBosch jersey. I think there were three jerseys they gave you the choice of that year, KVB, Boston and someone else I am forgetting. Lassiter? Aeneas?

Every game I have gone to this year has had different people in the section. There isn't even one person I have seen at two games. Used to be you knew who would be there and you shared the experience.

That is all long gone.

I thought the jerseys they gave out were Plummer, Boston, KVB, and Lassiter.

My wife still wears her KVB, and I still wear my Lassiter.

At a game at SDS, Kyle was getting carted off for an injury and my wife and he had a Mean Joe Greene kind of moment. As he passed by us, she thumbed up her jersey at him and he smiled and gave her a thumbs up.

I was blessed to get to know Kwamie pretty well. Great guy on and off the field. He once stopped me at a game in Glendale and went to customer service for a Sharpie just so he could re-sign my jersey because his signature was fading.

At SDS we used to get the biggest ASFN halftime gatherings. Some people came from the opposite side of the stadium just to be with the group at the half. Now we get just a couple or more at each half.

I also miss stadium security trying to stop the fans from bouncing inflatable beach balls around, @MadJack's signs (when he could really speak his mind), and so many other little things about game days there.

 

[D-Dogg]

Holy hell. I am a darksider. For those that know me, I've been a pragmatic optimist through all the 23 years I've had season tickets. Seen the best and worst. Never went dark.

I'm here now. Where them cookies I heard so much about??

 

[D-Dogg]

I miss the SDS days, too.

There was something oddly masochist yet comfortable about that hellhole. I say often I miss that old SDS heritage and lore.

 

[MrYeahBut]

I miss the old SDS days too. Wins were hard to come by but, damn, they were fun.

 

[BullheadCardFan]

Holy hell. I am a darksider. For those that know me, I've been a pragmatic optimist through all the 23 years I've had season tickets. Seen the best and worst. Never went dark.

I'm here now. Where them cookies I heard so much about??

This guy ate them all

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[CardNots]

I miss the old SDS days too. Wins were hard to come by but, damn, they were fun.

only the salty dawgs survived the SDS experience.

Looking back it was a priceless experience meant only for the brave.

 

[GatorAZ]

There was something oddly masochist yet comfortable about that hellhole. I say often I miss that old SDS heritage and lore.

Super random SDS question: The Cards used the north end college visiting locker rooms and not ASU’s locker room on the south side. Where did the visiting NFL team have their locker room?

 

[ajcardfan]

Super random SDS question: The Cards used the north end college visiting locker rooms and not ASU’s locker room on the south side. Where did the visiting NFL team have their locker room?

They also came out of the north end of the stadium.

 

[GatorAZ]

They also came out of the north end of the stadium.

I didn’t know there were two locker rooms on the north end. I thought it may have been an ASU thing where they didn’t want to Cards to use theirs out of spite.

 

[ajcardfan]

I didn’t know there were two locker rooms on the north end. I thought it may have been an ASU thing where they didn’t want to Cards to use theirs out of spite.

Yes, ASU did not let them use their locker room.
ASU's locker room is on the south side of the stadium. I don't know what the locker room situation was exactly but the teams did not come out of the same tunnel IIRC. Maybe ASU band had a lockeroom? Maybe they would partition it for NFL games?

 

[Cheesebeef]

This guy ate them all

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Beware, in the Dark Side, those chips may not be chocolate in those cookies…

 

[Cheesebeef]

I miss the old SDS days too. Wins were hard to come by but, damn, they were fun.

I miss watching NFL football outside (post September). There’s something just kinda sterile about the Big Toaster, especially when we suck.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

I miss watching NFL football outside (post September). There’s something just kinda sterile about the Big Toaster, especially when we suck.

Exactly. My first thought walking into it for the first time ever was that it felt like a big warehouse rather than a football stadium. We were sold on it being a closed roof stadium only for early season hot weather games and that it would be open all other games. Seemed like most seasons we still played more road games early regardless of the fact we basically had a domed stadium for those games. Then it turned into "Warner likes it closed" or some other factors which have had the roof closed on beautiful days/nights. Meh.