Yes I actually went and let me explain before you jump to any conclusions on your “jump to conclusions” mat. Earlier in the week my dad mentioned that one of his friends dropped off tickets for the Minnesota Gophers basketball game on Saturday. Well my dad couldn’t go, so he asked me if I would use the tickets so they didn’t go to waste. So I said I go if no one else could. Saturday morning rolls around and my sister and mom said they would go with me so I grab the tickets and we headed out.
The first warning sign that I failed to notice was; that while walking from the parking ramp to Williams Arena, there was a large number of middle-aged butch-like women walking with us. The second warning sign was the lack of seeing anyone my age. Well we entered the arena and I still was oblivious to the fact that there would be no real basketball played today. As I walked into my section I looked up and I was overcome with visible shock and said “you gotta be kidding me, it’s the woman’s team” loud enough for the people around me to hear. Next I examined my ticket to see if I should have known this was coming. As you can see from the picture, there is no mention or even hint that it’s the woman’s team. I commend the marketing team. Still shocked about the situation that I put myself into I wandered to my seats and sat down.
Instead of a pretty good fast passed action packed basketball game I was expecting, my next two hours were going to be filled with lay-ups and coaches in pants suits. I sat back in my seat and accepted my fate.
Upon scanning the crowd I realized that I was severely out of place, the other four people in my row had a combined age of 827. Besides the band and male cheerleaders I was probably the only 20-30 year old guy there.
Now I am not a sexist but what I watched there today was an embarrassment to Dr. James Naismithan and the sport of basketball. Yes, some of those girls are very athletic but I’ve watched better basketball at 6th grade city in-house leagues.
During the game a couple next to me, with Minnesota sweatshirts on, started cheering for
The halftime entertainment consisted of two bigger women getting 60 seconds to shoot lay-ups to win some prize. It was like watching Britney Spears’ performance at the Video Music Awards, so bad but you couldn’t look away. In 60 seconds both of them combined to make three lay-ups. Speaking of lay-ups, apparently when a girl makes a lay-up the crowd cheers like she cured cancer and AIDS.
The most entertaining and most WTF Mate? moment of the game came in the form of two guys dressed up as Easter bunnies. They constantly were on the camera dancing but no one ever gave an explanation for why they were there.
For how bad the basketball was the game was close till the very end, I actually was worried that by some cruel, strange twist of fate that the game would end tied forcing several overtimes.
Luckily there were no overtimes. Now I bet you’re wondering who won, the Minnesota Lady Gophers or the Wisconsin Lady badgers well they both lost, actually when women play basketball there are no winners why? Because no one cares.
Today I experienced something no man should ever go to unless you’re guaranteed, in writing, to get some from your significant other. And even in that situation I would not recommend going.
Zero flying monkeys obviously, I need to go do something manly to redeem this travesty of a mistake I made today.
5 comments:
I think the Easter Bunnys were hired by the University to give the paying fans a little entertainmet value for their money.
awesome Kubz, that ticket is a complete incognito hose job
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st louis
This was funkin hilarious. Thank you for saying what we all think.
oh my god....(AnGiE)
One positive from this that I can see is that by the picture you took of the ticket, you weren't overcharged. However, I for one, think they "lady gophers" should pay you to come to the game.
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