Just talking about this.
I’ve scene all pro no college:
Many baseball games. Yankees & Mets
More than a few football games. Giants & Jets
1 Hockey Game. Islanders
1 Basketball game. Knicks
Been to a few Oakland A’s games in my time. They won just about every time too. Speaking of sports, I really hope I don’t get caught up in the riot after the NBA Finals tonight…
Baseball: since spring training is here, I have seen a lot of games. I’ve also seen games at the Astrodome, Enron Field/MinuteMaid Park, Lee County Stadium, and Steinbrenner Field (Yankees) in Tampa.
Hockey: Too many Aeros and Solar Bears games to count (both are owned by the same franchise as The Wild)
No basketball or football for me. However, I did go to many college games while I was at uni.
We just got MLS here. I would love to go at least once after their new stadium is built.
Too many nba and NHL to count
no NFL
1 San Diego Padres game
1 Anaheim Angels game
NFL - LA Rams v NY Jets @ Anaheim (almost 30 years ago)
NBA - Lakers @ LA Staples Center
NHL - LA Kings v Philadelphia @ Staples
Baseball - Lots of Angels and Dodgers games and Padres
Minor League Baseball - Cucamonga Quakes
Cleveland Indians (many times)
LA Dodgers (many times)
Ohio State football (many times)
Boxing (many times)
Cleveland Browns vs LA Raiders (MNF)
Cleveland Cavaliers (1 game)
LA Clippers (1 game)
UFC 184
I’d love to see a professional boxing match.
I did see a low-rent UFC knock off at an Indian Casino and it was totally badass!!! For like $20 we were about 20 feet from thering and could see and hear and feel all the carnage up close. I even met UFC legend Dan Severn in the bathroom, haha!!
I also saw a live Soccer (no, I will NOT call it football) match in the UK for Manchester United. It was as boring as I thought it would be.
NFL - Phoenix/AZ Cardinals, been to various games on and off over the years
NBA - Phoenix Suns - my favorite team since I was a kid, though I’ve lost touch with them in recent years. Got to see a playoff game in '84 which was a highlight.
NHL - Arizona (Phoenix) Coyotes - various games over the years, and I watched them lose two Game 7s at home ('99, St. Louis, the Coyotes blew a 3-1 series lead) and in 2010 to the ugh Red Wings.
IHL - Phoenix Roadrunners - minor league hockey, went to a ton of games in the early '90s, those games were fight filled parties, my friends and I had a blast at those games. Tickets were like $6 for cheap seats.
MLB - Arizona Diamondbacks - I’m not a huge baseball fan, but have always supported the team. Caught a few games here and there, but a standout memory was going to Game 1 and Game 7 of the World Series against the Yankees in 2001. It was a crazy feeling to be inside a stadium watching your team win a championship. NY fans were so smug and condescending during that series, so it felt good taking them down.
Arizona State Sun Devils - fan since I was a kid, caught various games over the years. They won the Rose Bowl in '87, but that’s about it.
I’ve seen the Phoenix Inferno, Phoenix Pride, and AZ Sandsharks minor league soccer teams over the years, and even saw the San Diego Sockers at the old Sports Arena in 1990 when I was in the Navy.
AZ is the heartbreak state when it comes to sports. The Suns, ASU, and even the Cardinals had chances to win it all, and came up short. It’s not easy being a local sports fan here, especially when the teams have shit seasons. I should be used to it by now.
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Yes.
And if I die without ever having seen another live sporting event, I’ll be OK with that.
I honestly don’t even care for sports much, Rev, and don’t even know what’s going on half the time. But I think the events are a lot of fun live. Junkfood, noise, yelling . . . maybe a parking lot fight. I just love a spectacle.
To DJ — Minor League games are awesome. There’s a stadium by my house and my company has season tickets. Even if we didn’t already have tickets, it’s only a couple bucks to see the game, you sit a few feet back from the field, enjoy $2 beer and hotdog specials, get loaded and have a blast.
Now . . . about Hockey. I don’t follow the sport, but if you go to see a match, GET A TICKET UP CLOSE NEAR THE GLASS. It’s a boring as Hell game on TV, if you ask me. A bunch of tiny men chasing a black dot . . . not much different than a bad Atari game. But if you’re by the glass, dudes are getting smashed into it, the place shakes, you see fights up close and personal . . . . it’s just awesome.
Been going to watch Miami teams(college and pro) my entire life…die hard Dolphins,Canes,Heat,Marlins fan…
NHL - Waaaaaay too many Montreal Canadiens games (in Montreal) to count. Saw them play in Boston and Toronto as well.
Saw Colorado play the Stars in Denver. Saw Ottawa play a few.
MLB - Meh - a few when the Montreal Expos were around
NBA - some pre-season action
Golf (does that count?) - Saw the Canadian Open.
CFL - tons. (But you guys wont count that either)
UFC - Saw a Title Fight
Fomula One - we host the race here every year. Could not care less.
Soccer - Thankfully no.
I’d like to hear more from those of you that attended the UFC fights . . .
I find golf very boring, but i went to a pro-celebrity event a couple of years ago to watch Bill Murray play. It was a fun day, mainly because he was so funy, he’s the same in real life as he is in his films [:)]
I saw: UFC 158: St-Pierre vs. Diaz in Montreal.
There were:
3 warm up fights that were not televised
4 warm up fights that were televised
5 fights as part of the main card
So GSP vs Diaz happened at like 1:00am(ish).
My buddy got us into his company’s box seats (with free booze and food) and the doors opened at 6:00pm or something. So by the title fight @ 1:00am we were slightly (ie; greatly) inebriated.
The crowd was crazy, but that could be due to GSP having a title fight in his hometown.
There were lots of kids there. I was surprised to see so many young ones.
I remember the majority of fights ended with decisions from the judges. Wasn’t too many great knock outs.
The MMA event I went to was gnarly. These were not the superstars of UFC being paid $500K just to show up. These were trailer park scrappers, fighting for their lunch money (or meth money by the look of one of the fighters). It was at an Indian Casino so there were no kids. The crowd was amped and crazy. There were no specific allegiances or heroes. No one knew who any of the fighters were. We all just wanted to see violence. It was crazy. It was very much like the Bloodsport movies or so forth, only instead of deep down in a Bangkok basement it was in a ballroom-turned-makeshift-arena.
I would love to see another.
The UFC I went to was just this past February. Rhonda Rousey was the headliner, and it was the fight where she finished the girl in 14 seconds. It was nuts.
mrs_cripple’s best friend’s husband works for FOX, so he got us pretty good seats.
UFC and boxing is much more intense live. You don’t get all the cool angles, but you can feel the hits.
The MMA event I went to was gnarly. These were not the superstars of UFC being paid $500K just to show up. These were trailer park scrappers, fighting for their lunch money (or meth money by the look of one of the fighters). It was at an Indian Casino so there were no kids. The crowd was amped and crazy. There were no specific allegiances or heroes. No one knew who any of the fighters were. We all just wanted to see violence. It was crazy. It was very much like the Bloodsport movies or so forth, only instead of deep down in a Bangkok basement it was in a ballroom-turned-makeshift-arena.
I would love to see another.
HAHAHAHAHA!!! That’s TOTALLY a Mentos commercial.