Growing up in Oklahoma, football is a big deal. I attended a high school which has won seven out of the last ten 6A state championships. My college (Go Sooners!) won a national championship when I was there and have been ranked for close to the last 7 years. While growing up, my mother was a huge Dallas Cowboy fan during their glory years with Troy Aikman. What I'm getting at is we are really, really into football in my family. I can't count the number of football games I've been to in my life.
I can however, count the number of basketball games I have attended. If you count up high school, college, professional and even the Globetrotters the number totals around 5. This weekend, my friend scored some tickets to see the OKC Hornets play the Lakers. The 4 of us (my friend and her boyfriend, me and mine) braved the weather and took a little trip down there. I had very low expectations. In fact, I almost thought about not going. But I'm glad a had a change of heart. It was seriously some really good entertainment. There is some major fan involvement. They were always doing different contests and challenges, they had dancers and preformers, music and clips from movies. I was able to learn more of the rules and some of the players names and numbers. Plus, they had a jumbo cotton candy which I ate almost all of.
While I hardly think that basketball will ever occupy the same place in my heart as football will, I think I'll look into going to watch the Hornets play again.
