Two become one
#7 and #8 Go to an American Football Game and Go to a baseball game…
Ah yes, slight problem here in that when I went to DC it was the off season of both these sports…
However, eager to see some sport to carry on the flavour of the challenges I went to my first basketball in DC.
I rocked up at the Verizon Centre a few days before the game to purchase a ticket and was first offered one at $800 or one at $10. Confident they weren’t the only prices available, I asked her to check again and bought my ticket for the Saturday night, Washington Wizards v Boston Celtics.
Everyone told me the Celtics would win, but I kept the faith. I told the guys at my hotel I was going (they were Celtics fans) and cab drivers and anyone who I spoke to that I was going to the game and that the Wizards would win.
I was on team Wizard for the simple fact that, no matter who had been playing against the Wizards that night I’d have still gone to watch. As it happens the Celtics are a bloody good team, but still the Wizards sealed the deal to win, with the final shot of the game. Woo go team.
But game aside, the sheer entertainment value of the game was something to behold. I’d tell anyone heading to the states to take in a game. Best $50 I spent. Most fun I had while I was there I think and just wow. Hopefully my enthusiasm for what I saw shines through.
It’s not just the game but the whole, razzamataz, that goes with it, the cheerleaders, the half time entertainement, the time out entertainment, stand up till we score, kiss cam, dance cam… G-man.
In years to come, maybe someone will notice me checking the basketball score and smiling when I see that yet again, the Wizards have won. And they’ll ask me why I support them, and boy will I have a story to tell.
Thank you 30:30 Challenge. I am now a basketball fan, the proceeding challenges of #7/8 of football and baseball will be amalgamated, so the list will forever more have 31 things on it.
That’s a quirk I’ll have to live with.
Nic x
