DCU tailgating fun

Fred and I hightailed it back from an excellent weekend in Philly with his brother and my cousin (we did the Terror Behind The Walls tour at Eastern State Penitentiary on Saturday night, and my cousin and I screamed ourselves silly) to go to the DC United game on Sunday. We made it back in time for some tailgating.

This was easily the best outfit ever, and extremely appropriate, given the lack of decent officiating during the game:
Barra Brava had a live band during their tailgate. (They even had a TV with the Colts-Broncos game, so no one had to miss any NFL action.)

I met Duffman at the Barra Brava tailgate; he comments on the Sports Bog's DC United tailgating posts once in a while. He really does it up well, and I give a lot of credit to his friend/girlfriend/wife who probably has to take pictures with other people's cameras a lot, like she did with mine.
On to the game...I won't recap it here, since it would likely just be a string of curse words for the refs and a couple of the players, but I did spot the Metropukes/Red Bull fans up in 434 (who could miss them, since they were all alone). I noticed the blow-up doll they were dangling over the railing, but I didn't see what was on it until I downloaded the photos. (A DC United T-shirt. Whatever.) It was hysterical, though, watching those morons try to hang their banners and flags over the side, because it was getting in the view of the people in the boxes, so those people were attempting to pull the banners down. I believe they managed to snag a flag; good for them. Anyway, glad United pulled out the win, though I would have liked it to be a little more convincing. If they're going to make it through the next round, they can't depend on Gomez for every goal; but hey, we'll see how the ball bounces. Let's go DC!