Personal Narrative: A Female Sporting Event

In the month of October, I was in attendance for two sporting events. One of these events was a male sporting event and the other was a female sporting event. When attending these events I made sure to analyze all areas of my experience. I paid particular attention to the facilities, the marketing and promotions that I came across along the way, and different details about the crowd during the games. While overall I had a pleasant experience at both events, I did notice some room for improvement which I will discuss later. On October 10, 2015, I was one of the 80,000-plus fans in attendance at the Doak Campbell Stadium for one of the most anticipated games of the college football season: the Miami vs Florida State football game. To begin, parking was not an issue for me. The average cost for a spot in the parking lots in the area around the stadium ranged from $5-$25. A group of friends and I decided to carpool and rather than paying to park, we were able to obtain a free pass into

Two of the only things that I could point out that were only minor problems, was the traffic around the venue before the event, and the food prices inside the stadium. I feel like there should have been more patrolmen out trying to tame and organize the overwhelming amount of traffic. My friends and I that carpooled, waited about 20 or 30 minutes at one point waiting in bumper-to-bumper traffic before we parked at the apartment complex and decided to walk. Once we made it out of the jam, everything else went smoothly. And while there were many food choices inside the stadium, I found 90% of it to be extremely overpriced. They had a cheese burger in the stadium that sold for about $8, and a personal pan Pizza Hut pizza around the same price. The football game itself definitely lived up to all the hype that had been built up for months. Florida State came out with the victory,