OT: Sporting Event Bucket List
This one is pretty straight forward. What remains on your sporting event bucket list? What event do you have to go before your time is up?
For me there are a few MLB stadiums I still have to get to. However, the big one that remaining is the Monaco Grand Prix, forget the racing the party would be the thing (so would having the money to do it properly).
Me too man.
Sadly we just missed our window
Trivia: A Michigan athlete participated back then. Link:
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Bunch of buddies and I went to the DIA while in school and the American Gladiators were at the Joe we bought tickets and it was all kinds of awesome.
I would like to be at the game when Michigan wins their 1000th game. Which could be the National Chamionship game 5 years from now. (They are 75 wins away)
I'm trying to do the math here and now I'm puzzled. Wouldn't that mean 15 wins a year for each of the next 5 seasons (including 2016)?
Or is it 5 years after the 2016 season? That would still mean 12.5 wins a year for 6 straight years.
It sounds like we might be used to winning championships by our 1000th win if either of those scenarios happened, so I like your thinking!
5 straight years of 15-0. Which essentially means 5 straight National Championships. If you're going to dream, dream big.
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Rio is going to be a disaster of epic proportions this year from Brazil's political turmoil to ZIka. People are pissed.
The govt really screwed the pooch trying to go for a World Cup and Olympics back to back. Smh.
Tickets also aren't cheap. I assume it's always like that for the Olympics, but I had never looked before this year when I considered going. Even for some event that's not very popular and in an early stage, they're at least 40 bucks. Those events add up quick. Obviously I wouldn't go there just for a qualifying round of archery or something.
Go to the Kentucky Derby
Go to a CFP/NCAA Tourney game
Go to a Tennis Major
Early rounds on the outer courts at a big tennis tournament are amazing. In a way, the mandatory not-quite-majors might be even better, because the fields are smaller and they get to the good matchups straight away. I go to Cincinnati every year, and there are already top-40 players out there on qualifying weekend. By Wednesday you can be sitting literally at courtside, a few feet behind the returner, watching two top-20 players, and either you're practically alone and it's as if they're putting on an exhibition for you, or especially later in the day you're in a tiny packed bullring stadium. It's sort of like watching an NBA playoff game in a small high-school gym, and players from other NBA teams are sitting in the stands with you.
That's maybe the strangest thing of all--the very biggest stars are surrounded and protected of course, but the rest of the players are just there with the fans. I watched a Makarova match with her coach and trainer once, and they dragged me into their conversation. Stuff like that doesn't happen for ordinary fans anywhere else.
III, live.
in gladatorial combat to the death.
It might sound exciting, but I can tell you what that would look like. Basically death by a thousand cuts - each would attempt to slowly gouge the other one overpriced concession or one subscriber fee at a time until the opponent simply questioned whether it was still worth participating and no longer cared enough to continue. Prior to the anticlimactic ending, the "death match" would transition to a flame-throwing e-mail battle where lame insults are exchanged, but then any record of the e-mails is quickly deleted by their assistants. The largely disappointed audience would then simply quit drinking and go to bed.
After Delany poisons Brandon, Brandon squeezes Delany's head until his eyes pop out. We take out two birds with one gladatorial combat.
Does Brandon come back to life to do the bidding of Sankey?
I think you mean Delaney, but upvoted anyway.
FWIW, Brandon has been spotted silently patrolling the halls of a Toys R Us.
Aside from seeing us win a National Championship, I would love to be in attendance to see us beat USC in the Rose Bowl. That just seems like peak classic college football to me.
and since we're talking bucket list I'd like to add and orgy with 4 Song Girls of my choosing after the game.
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Have a great weekend!
Only if you could accompany that by DVR'ing the broadcast that just so happened to include Keith Jackson calling the game.
1. ManUnited game from the Stretford End of Old Trafford (hopefully next January while in England)
2. Michigan at Rose Bowl
3. Red Wings Cup Finals game in new arena
I want to be in the Gallowgate end at St. James' Park. Should be cheap next year... :/
Poor Geordies
Kentucky Derby
World's Biggest Outdoor Cocktail Party (Florida/Georgia)
a Michigan football National Championship game (preferably at Rose Bowl)
a Lions Superbowl
Stanley Cup finals game
Sitting at Amen Corner.
I have decided that next year, after I don't win the draw for the 4th consecutive year, I'm going to buy tickets and go. This is something I just need to attend.
what I have heard, it is absolutely awesome and that well mannered "patrons" are treated like royalty at the event.
but how much is just a general admission ticket?
I believe if you win the draw they are around $150 per day for the tournament itself and $90 for the practice rounds.
However, in the more likely event you need a scalper they range from 1,400-2,100 depending on the day you want
I'm going to become a woodsman and never leave. I will become nocturnal, and never seen by society again, and I will never leave the property. People will speak of me as a sasquatch or Yeti and I will build an underground stronghold in one of the hillsides. I will live off of juniper berries and pine needle soup, and wash in Raes creek.
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Monaco is all about the scene. The race is terrible . . . zero lead changes last year compared with like 50 for the Indy 500 which is on the same day.
But I would still like to go for the scene alone. Problem is, I don't think you can get exposed to that scene without spending major, major $$$.
you rather see Michigan win the Rose Bowl live or win the National Championship on TV this year? Just asking, interesting question.