PLEASE have your physical tickets or cell phones ready at the gate!
The Mrs. & I approached Gate C at 11:40 to enter the stadium. Too many ahead of us who were being chatty & not ready. Once they got to the persons doing the scanning, ONLY THEN did they start looking through their e-mails looking for their ticket cache, & then further delayed those behind them because each e-ticket has to be scanned individually.
YES. I'm getting cranky in my old age...lol
My phone was ready to go, but I had tickets in multiple places. Three where in my Google wallet, and one was a screenshot. I was able to toggle pretty quickly, but I don't think the scanners are exactly state of the art either.
That said, My theory is that the metal detectors are the actual cause of the bottleneck. Personally, I treat getting into Rentschler as I would going through TSA. So many people are like Anna Kendrick in
Up in the Air and wait until they are handed the little gray dish before digging into their pockets, which will cause delays no matter if the patron is ready with their tickets or not. I'm a not-as-handsome George Clooney and put all my loose items (phone, keys, earphones, wallet, and sunglasses) in my hat or jacket ahead of time to be passed it around the metal detector.
I feel ya. It took us a good 10-15 minutes to get through security and ticketing last Saturday due to other people causing delays, and I wound up missing UConn's TD by a couple of minutes because I was still at the concession stand getting my popcorn (which also involved a delay despite a short line, again due to other folks goofing around). The plan was for me to be in my seat by kickoff. Seeing as how it wound up being the biggest play of the game, I'd have liked to see it.
I suppose Delta is to blame for closing the gate while someone is at Hudson News as well. Security and scanning may have caused delays, but you were in the building. YOU missed the TD because YOU prioritized popcorn over game action.
Also (albeit arguable), the biggest play of the game was stopping BC on 4th & 1 inside their own 35.
i missed the Joly touchdown because of this
May not have been the entire reason.
I get it. We all like to tailgate. It had become
THE reason to attend games over the last half-dozen years, but the lots filled up faster and were more crowded than for any game since probably Houston '15. Even so, there were tons of people still tailgating or packing up at 11:45, and didn't add more than five minutes than normal to gain entry. Not at Gate D anyway, and provided my DVR started immediately at noon, the TD play was snapped at 12:06:53.
