Behind Enemy Lines: Staples Center - Section 333
by Jezru on May 22, 2009 12:30 AM MDT
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PrintFirst of all I have to say an epic thank you to my buddy, a Bucks fan, who hooked these tickets (and for spotting me two beers) - my kidney is yours my friend!
So here I was, a Nugget fan entering the arena of the hated ones. Ready to defend my team until the very end.... However, PSLakerfan was right. I have never in all my years of being a fan of visiting teams ever encountered a more amicable crowd. It's true. Of everyone there I was given hassle only one time (aside from the dude next me - more on that later). Do I credit this to the fact that Laker fan is classy? No. Laker fan is uninformed. As I said earlier, they don't know basketball. I walked around wearing my Pickaxe logo hat, yellow Hawaiian shirt and blue undershirt the whole time and nobody recognized the pick axe logo. To summarize what I said earlier, if it ain't the Laker's logo, they don't care. If it ain't the Lakers doing well, then forget it. Bandwagoners? Mmmmmm....
This was the sight that greeted me when I got there.
Gross right? I know.
There were a few Nuggies fans around... But they were few and far between. We got into the game a little late. The LA traffic held up my buddy with the tickets, but hey, what can you do? I wouldn't have been there without him anyway so I slugged a beer and waited.
We got into the game and after going through the metal detector we were greeted by poor misguided souls handing our what? Car flags! Incredible...
These things are so annoying they have to give them away...
Of course with any free thing, there was some hoarding....
I'm not taking your picture, I promise.
We finally got to our seats and we were seated higher than the scoreboard. Nosebleeds indeed! I tell you though, we could see everything and the trajectories of the shots couldn't have been clearer. It was close at first...
Yes, even Staples Center loves the Pepsi Center.
Then things got ill. We fell behind and there were these dudes that were providing some odd basketball commentary. "Our bigs are key..." - Really? Are they are you sure? Going out on a limb there boy-o!?
I do question what he was saying since we were so far up I could barely tell the bigs from the... anybody... Here's us during a timeout.
Those Laker girls are something else....
Hi!
Then we pulled close at halftime... Over halftime they were running texts people sent in to a specific number at the game. Though my "The Pickaxe is going to roll" was not broadcast, another Nugg fan got this on the scoreboard....
A shoot-around that ensued....
Then holy crap it got close. They showed a split screen of Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise and I made a vocal comment questioning their manhood and the tatted up Latino gentlemen sitting next to me became annoyed. We later made up. His name was Juan. Good guy Juan. Just don't knock Tom Cruise.
The game progressed and the Nuggets hung in there... Hung in there in the lead.
...and then we won. Finally. It was epic. It was grand. It was 20,000 Laker fans on suicide watch!
The commentators behind us and Juan having left early (diehard fans?!), exiting was easy. It was once we were outside that I ran into these fellows. Apparently one of them was marketing these shirts... I told them to come to Pickaxe and tell people how to buy and we would... Guess who Jezru is...
Holy crap... I should have shaved.... My face... Or smiled or something... Jesus...
Who cares.... The Nuggets won and my hat is crooked. BFD!
BUT! My friends! I gotta tell you the best part was what I encountered on the way to the car.. There it was in the street just as BroncofanstuckinSD foretold.... A Laker flag in the middle of the street - something straight out of Life After People....
On the way home I reveled in the tar and feathering of Derek Fisher and Phil Jackson. One woman called in to complain that the refs were agianst the Lakers (really? How many times did Kobe double dribble and travel tonight?!).
The manic Laker nation is alive and well. 24 hours ago they were ready to recieve any and all trophies... Tonight? Not so much.
It was an epic experience that I shall not forget any time soon. The Nuggs won and it was awesome. I even got a Melo chant in there a couple times...
Nuggs in 6!
J
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great post.....
houston fan rootin for nuggets, great team, great win….. stay humble stay hungry…
Epic post.
And nice job on the win Nuggets. The shot of the flag trampled on the street is quite artistic.
My favorite teams are the Blazers and any team that is playing the Lakers.
Major Props Jezru!
Great fanpost, great game!
We got into the game and after going through the metal detector we were greeted by poor misguided souls handing our what? Car flags! Incredible…
Classic.
Rec'd
Congrats on the great fan experience, dude. One of the highlights of my fandom was being at the game in Seattle when an 8 seed beat a 1 seed, coached by GK. I was cheering so loud at the end of the game that one poor distraught Sonic fan hit me with her sign on the way out.
Thanks for representing and for sharing your experience. I am soooo glad the Nugs won last night, not just for your sake, but for the sake of humanity.
MHH: Shagging Dater one contributor at a time.
by Bob in Boulder on May 22, 2009 10:22 AM MDT reply actions
DN Don't Love You
Classic. Went to high school with those guys in the picture, they run a clothing company out in LA but are Denver born and breed. I will see if they plan on selling those in mass or not.
That's awesome!
I’d buy one.
J
It's not the Lakers I hate with every bone in my body, it's just the players and their fans.
Cherry Creek baby! Can't stand Creek!
But those shirts should be made available.
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by Nate Timmons on May 22, 2009 11:41 AM MDT up reply actions
I went to Creek...
and even I couldn’t stand Creek…
J
It's not the Lakers I hate with every bone in my body, it's just the players and their fans.
I went to Creek too.
"C" is for Championship...that's good enough for meeeee!!!
by PosterNutbag on May 22, 2009 12:45 PM MDT up reply actions
I went to HS in Aurora. We hated everything about Creek. We were in the same athletic conferences at the time. I just remember going to football games and seeing all of the BMWs and Mercedes in the parking lot, and the cheerleaders having names like Tiffany and Buffy. Gag me with a silver spoon. CC, the LA Lakers of CO HS athletics.
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by Bob in Boulder on May 22, 2009 12:50 PM MDT up reply actions
lol…well? We weren’t as spoiled as you think. My first BMW was USED!
"C" is for Championship...that's good enough for meeeee!!!
by PosterNutbag on May 22, 2009 12:56 PM MDT up reply actions
Oh, you were one of the “less fortunate” ones. ;)
I bet my well used ’72 Chevelle could kick its butt!
MHH: Shagging Dater one contributor at a time.
by Bob in Boulder on May 22, 2009 1:01 PM MDT up reply actions
I drove a Nissan Stanza....
that didn’t have reverse… Imagine Buffy and Tiffany laughing while I pushed my car out of its parking space in order to leave each day…
It died at 3AM in the middle of nowhere near longmont in -20 degree weather with feet of snow on the ground…. Good times.
J
It's not the Lakers I hate with every bone in my body, it's just the players and their fans.
Bummer dude
I bet Buffy and Tiffany never got into that thing! You should have hung out in Aurora. ;)
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by Bob in Boulder on May 22, 2009 1:11 PM MDT up reply actions
Nice. My real first car was an ‘84 Chevy Caprice Classic. It was like two couches on wheels. It could do 0-60 in about 24 minutes. I loved it though. I ended up selling it for $100.00. The breaks were shot (along with pretty much everything else). The ad said: "’84 Chevy Caprice Classic. Runs great…does not stop". Good times.
Tiffany wouldn’t have anything to do with me. But Buffy and I had some fun on the backseat couch. ;-)
"C" is for Championship...that's good enough for meeeee!!!
by PosterNutbag on May 22, 2009 1:22 PM MDT up reply actions
went
to Northglenn and hate and hated CC with a passion. Except the year we won state in football. But that year they got beat by pomona.
somethings wrong, Trying to conquer these fears i thought were gone. And it's been so long, I'm dying to live in a world i don't belong
by broncfanstuckinsd on May 22, 2009 2:14 PM MDT up reply actions
I was watching
the game next to an ass, errr laker fan. Giving me all sorts of crap while Denver is down in the 1st half. But when denver went up 91-84 the loser left.
As I walked home I was looking for laker flags, didnt see any until this morning. HAHA
somethings wrong, Trying to conquer these fears i thought were gone. And it's been so long, I'm dying to live in a world i don't belong
by broncfanstuckinsd on May 22, 2009 2:15 PM MDT reply actions
This is why I say I’d almost prefer the Nugs go down ten early than up ten.
"C" is for Championship...that's good enough for meeeee!!!
by PosterNutbag on May 22, 2009 2:29 PM MDT up reply actions
Awesome stuff, way to infiltrate the hated Laker Land
"Me fail english, that unpossible" - Ralph Wiggum
"Duffman is thrusting in the direction of the problem" - Duffman
"Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun" - Ash from Army of Darkness
"H.I., you're young and you got your health, what you want with a job?" - Evelle from Raising Arizona
"It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural causes." - Agent Rogersz from Repoman
thanks so much Jezru for the insight reminds me of Broncos at Browns last yr I
was getting s^%t the whole game until a spectacular 4th qtr. I stood up affter the clock struck 0:00 and yelled out a whooo-hoooo! I had a champ bailey away jersey on and almost got into it with a very drunk Browns fan after the game who argued “Bailey wasnt even here, man, why you wearin his jersey man!?!?” Congrats on a grand night. Nuthin like winning on the road, especially in the post season and such an important game at that.
by DenVa BroncHoos on May 22, 2009 6:15 PM MDT reply actions
arent
all browns fans drunk, especially when Denver comes to town to rip another win from those losers
somethings wrong, Trying to conquer these fears i thought were gone. And it's been so long, I'm dying to live in a world i don't belong
by broncfanstuckinsd on May 23, 2009 1:06 PM MDT up reply actions
Great experience
I love all the pics; I can actually scroll through and get a sense of where and when you were during the game.
PS- say hello to the Laker girl!
Go Nugs!!!
"I'm not so mean. I wouldn't ever go out to hurt anybody deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something." - Dick Butkus
"Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack." - Sun Tzu
Here's a picture you forgot to post...
2009 LA Kings Hockey: thanks to Joe Sakic's snowblower, WE'RE BETTER THAN THE AV'S!!!!
by DodgerBlueBalls on May 23, 2009 1:27 PM MDT reply actions
what good are those banners
gonna do you when you are watching the finals on TV while Denver is playing for the title?
BTW how does a 39 point beat down taste in a clinching game 6 to Boston?
somethings wrong, Trying to conquer these fears i thought were gone. And it's been so long, I'm dying to live in a world i don't belong
by broncfanstuckinsd on May 23, 2009 2:43 PM MDT up reply actions
Damn it's hard to avoid clicking on your avatar for a closer look.............
huh…………what?…………….Oh yeah my point. What year is that title coming? Not 2009.
Well, sir, you are a cowardly son of a bitch! You just shot an unarmed man!.......Well, he should have armed himself if he's going to decorate his saloon with my friend. – Will Munny
Those are impressive
But you won’t need to redecorate any time soon. The Nuggets on the other hand, are going to have to figure out where to hang theirs…
There's a scoreboard right underneath those banners...
he must have cropped that out….
It's not the Lakers I hate with every bone in my body, it's just the players and their fans.
um actually it's like 100ft below the bottom of the picture.........
but your point is still made.
Well, sir, you are a cowardly son of a bitch! You just shot an unarmed man!.......Well, he should have armed himself if he's going to decorate his saloon with my friend. – Will Munny
Funny post, really.
However it loses it’s luster after Game 3. :-)
Well, sir, you are a cowardly son of a bitch! You just shot an unarmed man!.......Well, he should have armed himself if he's going to decorate his saloon with my friend. – Will Munny
Game 7
Dude i just locked up Game 7 tickets at Saples, IM PUMPED!!!!! I hope it goes 7 so i get to catch it once in a life time thing!
Melooooooo
4 on Gasol
It's not the Lakers I hate with every bone in my body, it's just the players and their fans.
oops I clicked away from the thread.
wondered why it was suddenly dead in here..
It's not the Lakers I hate with every bone in my body, it's just the players and their fans.
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