We're seriously starting threads flaming people for leaving early? Really?

I was at the game, and I left with about 3 minutes left in the game. Flame on. I don't care. I was just thrilled the game wasn't over early in the second quarter like the last home game.

But I had stayed almost the entire game, and I had watched us kick field goals. I knew there was no way in hell we were scoring a touchdown, let alone a 2 point conversion afterwards. Our offense hadn't done a thing in the second half to give me a shred of hope. But I stayed until our next to last offensive series, waiting for the offense to show me SOMETHING. They didn't. At that point I was already quite sunburnt, so to save myself both future and present misery I left, knowing the outcome of the game was very unlikely to change. Imagine my surprise when I got back to the car and discovered we had, in fact, not been able to score a TD and lost the game. And yes, traffic was a breeze. I'm not apologizing for leaving early. I paid quite a bit for my season tickets, I chose to leave. The team didn't lose because I left early. They didn't need the fans to stay to stop the Steelers from running out the clock. By leaving early the only person who I adversely affected in any way was myself in the unlikely event that we made some miracle comeback and went into overtime. That was a risk I was willing to take. Hate on it all you want, at least I was there. Maybe we should worry about more important things than someone leaving 3 minutes early.

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