Flight delays, lost luggage, gate change confusion - airports can be stressful to say the least.
After Tottenham lost, Lasagna-gate was forever memorialized in song by Arsenal fans.
Another gate lost its guiding rail.
Bode Miller clipped a gate, lost a pole and finished 12th.
By contrast, in the late seventies, two great movies of sublime scale, "Apocalypse Now" and "Heaven's Gate," lost that balance.
Under a 15-game schedule, 15 teams would have played seven home games instead of eight and would have lost the lucrative gate.
On the digital singles chart, Lady Gaga's "Born This Way," which was enormously popular out of the gate, lost 44 percent of its sales in its third week, with 286,000, although that was enough for it to hold at No. 1.
But based on an average ticket price of $75.69, as determined by Team Marketing Report, the Vikings may have lost $4.84 million in gate receipts — a blow for a team that ranked 29th in the 32-team league in revenue in 2009, according to Forbes Magazine.
