When we got home from the game last night, my sister was all smiles, and excited about her attendance at her first NFL game. We then both mentioned which professional sports we had each been to, and I was coming up short. She was up one sport on me. I had never been to a professional basketball game.
My brother in law has a good friend with Season Tickets to the Detroit Pistons, at the Palace of Auburn Hills. She has a suite (we visted at half time-good refreshments), and floor seats right behind the basket(we did not want their sweat on us!), and regular seats(we took those). Regular, if you are used to sitting five row up from the floor seats (about eight rows off the court). So close you could hear the trash talk. So close you could hear the rustle of the cheerleaders' pom-poms. You could almost hear the swish of the basket.
The Palace itself is gorgeous, the name quite fitting. But this is Detroit. And like many things Detroit it has been abandoned. The place looks great, the service is nice, but no one was there.Mostly because the team has gotten off to a slow start. Being from New York, I was making fun of my hosts as they decried the "traffic" getting to the game. The traffic was an extra four minutes on the exit ramp to get to the arena. The empty arena. The arena that holds 22,000 people, the arena that was MAYBE one quarter full. These games are more fun in an energized crowd, and it can be hard to get that when it's so sparse, but as all things basketball the tempo picked up in the last few minutes.
It was a lot of fun,the Pistons won by a nice margin,and we got our picture taken with the 2004 Championship Trophy.
How odd is it that I went to visit the sister least interested in sports, both individually and as a family,and we went to two games!
So: Baseball-Check. Hockey-Check. Football-Check. Basketball-Check.
Tennis, anyone?
6 comments:
Having done this two nights in a row I would have to say that football is more exciting to watch. Now this may be because there were 49,950 fans at the football game, or it may be that since basketball seems easier and every yard in football is so difficult to earn it's more exciting, or maybe I was at a Vikings game with a Vikings fan!!!
Either way both were fun as time spent with a sibling usually is.
I've been to the Chase Tennis Championship ( I think that's what its called) a the Garden, really cool. And I think that puts me one up on you...
11:41vis late! new adventures are always twofold, it is a first and the event itself. Sounds wonderful related
Your children are at home crying.
That is all.
your mother will cry when you are in warm sunny snow-less florida.
well said, doubly jealous
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