A fine day for football

If you squint really hard you can see helmets and shoulder pads.

Harvard vs Yale it wasn't but on the last Friday before Thanksgiving I couldn't help myself any longer and I walked over to the nearby stadium to watch the last 45 minutes of a "futbol" (soccer) match. We don't really know the local teams well and have been warned about just showing up without knowing who to root for but my curiosity got the best of me, especially when I remembered that folks told me the same thing about Eagles' fans when I moved to Philadelphia. 


Once inside the stadium I felt no danger whatsoever but as you can see from the photographs the "polis" presence was obvious and impressive, especially for a second division local match. 

Check out the show of force with the policeman sitting behind the plastic shield and the row of
policemen going up the corner of the stadium. The Turks take their soccer serious.