then there was the time in Phildelphia 1981
, me and friend waited in the pouring rain to enter JFK Stadium , S Broad st. Phila Pa. in a crowd of 110,000
We had taken the train from CT, arrived overnight, and partied and played frisbee all night in the parking lot with everybody else that was tailgaiting for the show. So about dawn it starts raining, and we headed in .
Th gates opened at 7 am. Man was it raining, a monsoon , We got out of line for a while and hid underneath a parked trailor.All the time we stood in the rain people pleaded with security to open the gates. Some pleaded nice , some not so nice, one specific security guard took some real nasty verbal abuse.Real loud pleas of ..Open the fuckin' gates ..... followed by [/i]
" And I don't mean ,maybe...!!"[/i] We were laughing our asses off .
The show was great , later in the day the showers came back, it was good for the crowd on the field , it was June and hot . They had been hydrating the crowd with a sawhorse with several water pipe nozzles attached , well sitting from
the upper seats of the stadium, we could see where the hoses
to the sawhorse were being cut .By the scurry of people at
the end of the hose, which caused that part of the field to turn all muddy. Now on the field , which was completely filled with people, a game broke out in that huge mud puddle , which equalled anything that ever happened in the
Roman Coliseum.
About the 40 yard line , on the field , a large circle was
formed by people in the crowd .It was the only area of real estate on the entire field with no one standing on it .All clear ,for about 20 yrds square,
Nothin but Mud About 12 pairs of girls and guys stood apart from everybody , with the girls getting up on each mans shoulders,they squared off and did battle ,the entire crowd in the stadium cheered them on , it was absoltely spontaneous .A Battle Royal , in the mud , in front of 100,000 .From our vantage piont ,sitting in the stands ,we could see it all perfect. I think some may call it Polo Pony , and it may be played in water, these people were giving there all not to be pulled down by another team into the mud .
Pair by Pair they battled,pushed ,pulled at each other to gain advantage .When girls resisted attempts by their foes , the stadium crowd roared.
When a team was pulled down ,the winner got a cheer ,and with the stadium filled , the cheers were loud . It felt like eveything you ever saw in Ben Hur .
When the battle wore down to the last 2 couples , they let
both couples have a few minutes to rest. They poured water over their heads to clean up a bit ,that stood out in the picture now ,from all the mud covered bodies.
Then , with everyone in the stands yelling , then quietly watching on , the last 2 couples squared off , grappling and battling ,fending off each others attempts to pull the other down ,they went on for about 10 minutes , then one team stood alone , the other team was down in the mid ,and they were the last couple Standing. The stadium crowd erupted with the last final fall of the match , The winners took a bow , we continued to cheer them
it was just like Rome ...
...and you was giving me shit for selling two joints of pencil shavings...hell that was revenge. 
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