MattFancy Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Seems the Skins had a big time shortage of towels yesterday. We got into the stadium around 4:15 and there was nothing left. There were a bunch of people in my section (120) that didn't have them. I saw some people walking around with 3 or 4 towels/person. Was there no limits on how many towels someone could grab or did the team just vastly underestimate the amount they needed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM72 Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 I said the same thing. I was expecting a white out yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinsinparadise Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 $30 or so now on ebay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattFancy Posted January 11, 2016 Author Share Posted January 11, 2016 I said the same thing. I was expecting a white out yesterday. Â There really didn't even look to be that many in the stands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinsfan1311 Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Seems the Skins had a big time shortage of towels yesterday. We got into the stadium around 4:15 and there was nothing left. There were a bunch of people in my section (120) that didn't have them. I saw some people walking around with 3 or 4 towels/person. Was there no limits on how many towels someone could grab or did the team just vastly underestimate the amount they needed? I saw the same thing. They were giving out one per fan. I think people were getting one, hiding it from view, and getting another one. Not cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GOSKINS_08 Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 I got in the stadium around 4:10 and they were gone. Nobody in my section seemed to have 1. My friend found 1 in the bathroom on the sink and I convinced him to give it to me lol. Disappointing though how they handed them out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zCommander Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 The Packers fans stole them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stugein Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Yeah if the number of towels that were waving in the crowd was any indication then the team severely undershot on their supply estimates. Either that or there was some serious hoarding going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boss_Hogg Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 They ran out of them...or that's what I was told.  IMO the real fan amenity travesty was the bathroom flood by gate D. There was a brown substance all over the floor. It could've been dirt but it looked like feces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just654 Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 I got the last one at the main gate at about 3:45pm. They did not hand them out 1 by1. It was a mad house for them. People were taking handfuls of them at once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ldysknzfn1 Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 There was a dude on FB yesterday that said he had 5..wanted to know who wanted one..didn't say if he was selling them or giving them away..just wanted to know who wanted one.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duckus Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 How do you **** up handing out towels? Bruce, you have one job man. Hahahah. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btfoom Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Got to stadium about 4:00. Â No more towels by entrance. Â Happened to walk by Customer service window. Â They were giving them away, one per ticket. Â I was lucky that I saw that and got one. Â Gone by 4:10. Â I don't know how this got screwed up that badly. Â There are 4 different sponsors on the towel, and they aren't the highest quality. Â Can't believe they cost more than 10 cents or so to make in mass quantities. Â Just have 100000+ towels so everyone does get one. Â Sadly, typical that Skins management screws up another 'fun' thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skinsfan1311 Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Got to stadium about 4:00. No more towels by entrance. Happened to walk by Customer service window. They were giving them away, one per ticket. I was lucky that I saw that and got one. Gone by 4:10. I don't know how this got screwed up that badly. There are 4 different sponsors Sadly, typical that Skins management screws up another 'fun' thing. Skins management didn't screw anything up. Thoughtless, greedy & selfish fans did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooleyfan1993 Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 They ran out of them...or that's what I was told. IMO the real fan amenity travesty was the bathroom flood by gate D. There was a brown substance all over the floor. It could've been dirt but it looked like feces. Sorry.....I was drunk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koolblue13 Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Sorry.....I was drunk.stupid kids Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FedEx Nosebleed Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 It varied by gate. Â We went in the gate by the out door stage around 3:30 and they had plenty. Â They also had attendants handing them out one to a fan. Â We later saw people with five or six each and couldn't understand how that was possible; now that I read about other gates just setting the boxes out for people to grab them I get it. Â Yet another crowd management fail at Fedex. Â Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixcuincle Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 You came in too late hoss. But I went in around 2 PM and they had plenty available.  Even after I came back from playing Madden / VR at the Bud Light tent (that took like an hour) they still had em available. Even when people were gathering around to watch the end of Seahawks game (around 4:10) I believe they still had them available.  Should have checked all the entrances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonard Washington Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 Mine is on my kitchen table Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixcuincle Posted January 11, 2016 Share Posted January 11, 2016 I will also say that many people had multiple ones. They do the same with giveaways. People have like 3 or 4 bobbleheads at the Nats game. It's like you can only take one damn it. Then they sell them all on Ebay for jacked up prices. It's stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC9 Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 If you're a fan captain, you would've gotten an email today asking if you did not get one.  I'm not sure how many they still have.  But if you think about it, who wouldn't want one of those towels? They were probably handing them out like candy last week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redskin4ever Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 When we got into the game just after 4, there were none at our gate. I thought they limited to only the first x number of people. The person sitting with me went to the concession stand after player warmups. When he came back, he had a towel for himself and for me. He told me what happened was that they would try to bring out a new box, and the fans would just storm the people carrying the box and take all the towels. He said these were older ladies carrying the boxes and obviously it wasn't worth it to them to get hurt by the mob. So there would be a box just sitting on the concourse where the stadium staff left them to save themselves. Eventually, a few cops came over to break up the mob. One of the ushers said that they had to keep the towels in back because they were getting ravaged by the fans. And when they tried to bring out more, they couldn't even get them to the gate.  This was a dual failure on the part of Fed Ex field for not handling it better, but also the stupid, idiotic, selfish fans that would would attack the stadium staff as soon as they saw the box. Clearly fans trying to take and hoard towels caused many people not to get them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsailand Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 I will also say that many people had multiple ones. They do the same with giveaways. People have like 3 or 4 bobbleheads at the Nats game. It's like you can only take one damn it. Then they sell them all on Ebay for jacked up prices. It's stupid.  I know a guy who did this with the Coolidge bobblehead.  He bought a bunch of tickets cheap online and went in and out, getting one bobblehead per ticket . By the end I had a backpack full.  The game was rained out, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobandweave Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 I was at the skins Cowboys game week 17 and they gave everyone a towel but the difference here was that they put them on the seats not handed them out at the gate. Maybe next time they should do that. Oh and I didn't take mine lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balki1867 Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 That's really disappointing about our fans hoarding those things and mobbing old ladies, but that type of behavior seems to be the norm at FedEx Field lately. On a side note, it was pretty entertaining watching Jordan Reed on TV try to free himself of one of those towels that had found its way onto the field, disintegrated, and wrapped itself around him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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