My First AA Hockey Experience
Well, last night Dustin and I hit up Coache's in Bricktown (downtown Oklahoma City). After some cheese fries, a barbeque chicken and linebacker special (pizzas), and a couple of jugs of harvester wheat, it was off to the Ford Center to watch the Oklahoma City Blazers face off against the Cotton Kings from Lubbock.
When scored some $10 tickets outside the arena (face value was $17) and headed to our seats 4 rows off the ice. There were some folks already in our seats, so we found a section of about 10 empty seats nearby and sat down. A few minutes later a j-hole cowboy shows up with his Winona Judd-wanna-be wife and informs us that we are in his seats. As we begin to move down to our seats, he asks, "Do y'all boys even have a ticket?" Well, any other night we would've fired something back like, "No, we snuck in," or, "Do YOU have a ticket, Bubba?" But we didn't. We did what classy people do and just moved down into our seats. You see, "Bubba" probably drove in from a small town last night to catch dinner and see his Blazers. I mean he had his best-pressed Wranglers on, his nicest felt cowboy hat and he's gonna be hot-damned if a couple of prettyboy city slickers are gonna take his season ticket-holder seats.
After some dippin' dots and chuckin' a few pucks, we were in for one heck of a 3rd period. With the Blazers down 3-1, the game began to take on a more physical tone. At the beginning of the 3rd, one of the Blazers players absolutely laid out a Cotton King. In football, it's called a de-cleater. Laid the guy out on his back. Sticking up for his guy, a fellow Cotton King skates over and tackles the Blazer that had delivered the initial blow, and the fight was on. The Cotton King that initially got blasted (#11) skated off the ice and did not return the rest of the night. One fight, several big hits, and 2 more Blazer goals later, we were going to overtime. Tied after the end of the 5-minute overtime, we were now headed to a shootout. Blazers win the shootout 4-3, and the crowd goes nuts. It was the best hockey game I've ever been to. A great time.
When scored some $10 tickets outside the arena (face value was $17) and headed to our seats 4 rows off the ice. There were some folks already in our seats, so we found a section of about 10 empty seats nearby and sat down. A few minutes later a j-hole cowboy shows up with his Winona Judd-wanna-be wife and informs us that we are in his seats. As we begin to move down to our seats, he asks, "Do y'all boys even have a ticket?" Well, any other night we would've fired something back like, "No, we snuck in," or, "Do YOU have a ticket, Bubba?" But we didn't. We did what classy people do and just moved down into our seats. You see, "Bubba" probably drove in from a small town last night to catch dinner and see his Blazers. I mean he had his best-pressed Wranglers on, his nicest felt cowboy hat and he's gonna be hot-damned if a couple of prettyboy city slickers are gonna take his season ticket-holder seats.
After some dippin' dots and chuckin' a few pucks, we were in for one heck of a 3rd period. With the Blazers down 3-1, the game began to take on a more physical tone. At the beginning of the 3rd, one of the Blazers players absolutely laid out a Cotton King. In football, it's called a de-cleater. Laid the guy out on his back. Sticking up for his guy, a fellow Cotton King skates over and tackles the Blazer that had delivered the initial blow, and the fight was on. The Cotton King that initially got blasted (#11) skated off the ice and did not return the rest of the night. One fight, several big hits, and 2 more Blazer goals later, we were going to overtime. Tied after the end of the 5-minute overtime, we were now headed to a shootout. Blazers win the shootout 4-3, and the crowd goes nuts. It was the best hockey game I've ever been to. A great time.
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