The way I drove to RFK for game days generally goes on a fairly straight, slightly hilly stretch of road for about 15 miles before getting to 66, where things give me a lot of options: I can go to 495, or stay on 66 to Constitution or Independence, or even take the GW Parkway on occasion to get to a game.
But it’s that first stretch of road, where I seem to judge how a game day was going to go or not go. If I hit the lights at the wrong time, I’d be annoyed for the rest of the drive in, for some karmic grievance of being deprived the time in spending with friends before going in to watch D.