I think my worst purchase ever was tickets to the Panda Game during my final year of university. The Panda Game was a football game with Carleton against the University of 0ttawa played at Landsdowne Park.
At one point, before I started going to Carleton, it was the wildest game of the year. The place was packed, the alcohol flowed freely and it was a crazy atmosphere. But then a railing broke, a whole bunch of people fell 15 feet, some were very seriously injured and they put in place a whole bunch of rules to limit alcohol consumption. But I digress.
Anyway, it was an afternoon game. I headed over to my friends' place to hang out first, then we hit the campus pub before walking over to the game. We ended up missing the first ten minutes of the game. As we were sitting down in our seats, the Uof0 scored making it 21-0. The next ten minutes we were there we proceeded to watch not only the bad guys score a couple more touchdowns but also knock a couple of Carleton players out of the game including the starting quarterback who was taken off the field on a stretcher.
By then we had had enough. There was no alcohol in allowed in the stadium that day, which might have been the only thing that could have made the remainder of the game tolerable, so we took off after being there for only 10 minutes.
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