Last night I attended the Ravens 3rd Annual Purple Evening at M&T Bank Stadium, and I must say, it was a great event to attend.
Each year the Ravens have the womens only event for members of the Purple Club. The Purple Club was created just for the female football fan. With the membership comes emails to exclusive events, discounted merchandise and entries for prizes.
The Purple Evening has evolved so much. The event used to be called "Football 101", designed to give women assistance on learning the game. During the event, members also met with Ravens players, toured the locker room and were able to do interactive actitivies on the field.
Female fans got to enjoy such luxuries as massages, facial info and even the new popular trend, minx nails (with Ravens logos, of course). Specialty drinks such as the Ravens margaritas were available, as well as other admenities.
If you didn't get to the Autograph Station early, chances are you didn't get one. While the Ravens had players such as Ray Rice, Haruki Nakamura, Michael Oher, Chriss Carr and Colts great Lenny Moore come out to sign autographs, the wait to get them were so long, they were wrapped around the stadium.
Every NFL team should have such an event. Women watching and loving football is on the rise in a major way, and this is a great opportunity to show appreciation to those that can supported. While the numbers haven't come in yet, it is believed that the attendence nearly doubled from last year's event. Special thanks to Heather Blocher of the Baltimore Ravens for allowing me to come and take part of this event.
Ladies, if your favorite NFL team has an event like this, please go and check it out. Trust me, it's definitely worth it.
I'm going with you next year!!
The Falcons started with Football 101 then progressed to 101/102. That was on a Saturday. Last year was the first for an event similar to yours but it was a weeknight and I was living in Houston at the time. Now that I'm back in Atlanta, I'm planning to go this year.
Glad you had a great time supporting a great cause.