Weekend at the Legends game

We arrived in town on Friday morning and checked into Lumiere Hotel/Casino.....went down to my favorite bars in La Clede's Landing....Showme's and Sundeckers....both closed.....walked to Big Daddy's and bartender there said those bars have been closed for a year....also Jakes Steaks and about 4 others are shut down....very sad...

Everyone is at Ball Park Village now......we Ubered there and hung out at Brewhouse....lots of Dodger fans in the house....went up to our seats on Rooftop deck of Brewhouse.....great view and Cardinal fans were nice......this is the game we lost in the 16th inning....I went back to Big Daddy's after 8th inning ,pretty drunk, thinking we had a win....my son stayed until the 14th inning....but I k new I wanted to get up early to get in line at Dome.

I walked over there with my items for signing at 8 AM .. hung over.........doors were opening at 10
: 30......I was second in line, behind a guy and his Dad from Florida...it was there first time ever in STL.....the line started forming behind us by 9 o'clock....by 10 , there were about 500 in line ...my girl and son showed up with the other things I had for signatures.

Doors opened and they took us down to the tunnel that Rams come out of onto field......the lobby filled up and they had to arrange 3 or 4 seperate lines.....trying to figure which people were ahead of who.... I heard some people complaining they got screwed.....but I was second, and they said they were going to send in 50 people at a time.....We were told that there were 4 players per table and to follow path around stadium, and not to cut across the field.....they let us in at 11:15 and I went straight to Bruce....he signed 5 things and I shook his hand.....I skipped a table that had Vermeil but he wasn't there...went straight to Kurt.....he had just sat down and we were second to get to him....he signed five items and we told him we were from LA and he loved it....i asked him " are you gunna win the game today against Bulger?....He said...." I don't know, we shall see ".....I said " What ? is the game rigged like the WWE?" he got a big laugh outta that..

Went to other tables and we were first at each....got autos from Proehl, Holt, Wilkins, Martz, Vermeil, Coady, MCCullom, Timmerman, Zgonnia, Bly, etc....was awesome...

At noon lines were crazy....probably 250 in the Warner line alone........they had a running clock and once it hit 0:00... it was shut down ....and people were pissed....I heard a guy sitting behind me say he bought 4 of the $ 100 tickets...and he only got Warner's auto on one item...he got there toooo late and he was pissed....

Game was fun.....but it was sad seeing all the former season ticket holders wearing their old Ram jerseys and knowing it was over....I felt bad....people were spread out around the Dome and I know they were season ticket holders , just sitting in their seats for the last time...it was also amazing to see the stuff they brought to get autographed....I'm talking full size 4' x 5' framed pictures, posters, Jerseys, footballs, everything with 99 Superbowl Champs you can imagine....you could tell they had this stuff hanging on their walls and wanted a special souvenir from a team that has gone.....talked to many fans, and when they found out we were from LA , they were very nice and wished us good luck...

.....I wore my LA Rams hat and shirt a few times and got a few double takes ....but people just laughed....wore them everywhere except to the Dome game.....one guy at the Arch said " You're sure trying to stir the pot ,huh "....and he laughed...

Didn't have the energy to go to the Dodger game on Saturday night....nor the $$$$$.....got up Sunday and went to Caleco's for lunch....then one last trip to the Arch....ended up getting drunk Sunday night at Joey B's and Big Daddy's......very emotional final walk back to the hotel....

Over 20 years and 22 visits later, it was over....Hard to believe.....love the STL.