I’m at a Nets game right now and there’s been a raffle, a giveaway for Martin Lawrence stand up tickets, a cardboard card race, and some people in sparkly outfits dancing to Beyoncé. Not sure who’s winning but I’m having a great time.
I get very emotional recommending this because i don’t want to bring in fair weather fans and also as more people come i get on the jumbotron less, but you simply must start going to WNBA games. When the NY Liberty moved to Barclays in 2021, I started attending every single home game. It is the only place in the world i ever feel the full spectrum of emotions. These players are GOOD and many of them are DATING EACH OTHER which happens in no other sport at all basically!!!! Two years ago, 4 of the 5 starting players on Chicago’s team were literally married to each other (two couples, not poly though i wouldnt rule that out as something that could happen in the future). The tickets are so cheap because people do not value the league enough and then also the league itself thinks that people who attend the games have to be entertained the whole entire time or else no one will come, so they have programming for every second of the game, including a dance team of people aged 50+. It’s amazing and i cannot wait for next season.
I went to a preseason basketball game like a month ago and it was a spiritual experience. I am the opposite of a sports person but I was invited to go last minute with front row seats or i think there was a different word used. I had just gotten over covid and was feeling like i needed to seize the day and say yes to things after being cooped up for a week. Everyone was in such a good mood and being so positive in the stadium. I felt like I was in a spaceship which I really love. Also I love teamwork.
Give me an everyday object that looks like a critter any day of the week. We don’t have art deco intricacy but we do have telephone booths shaped like dolphins!