My first day in Rome was a Sunday, which also happened to be the day of AS Roma's last home game of the year. Having heard much about excitement surrounding European soccer, I twisted Shane's arm and we went to the game. Roma needed to win and Itern Milan had to lose or tie in order to keep Roma in the title race for one more week. Roma got out to a 2-0 lead and the crowd roared loudly with each goal that was scored. There was one thing that caught me by suprise, through. For almost no apparent reason, the crowd began to became alive with yells and cheers although nothing was happening on the field. I begin to look around to see if maybe there was a fight going on or something to that nature, but I see that they posted the score of the Inter game on the scoreboard behind me, the score was 2-2. The crowd cheered louder for this score than any of the previous Roma goals. When all was said and done, Roma won 2-1 and Inter tied 2-2, meaning Roma would have a chance to win the championship in their last game a week from then. Walking back from the stadium was pretty exciting with people blaring on their horns and waving flags to celebrate their team's victory. This must have lasted for a good hour until we were finally back in Trastevere from the Stadio Olimpico.
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