The Maverick's Game
Sharing my experience with you...
I had an offer from a good friend to attend the Dallas/Portland NBA game Wednesday night and although I am not a big NBA fan, I chose to go along for the company and the experience. It just so happened that these tickets were free to us but the price printed on them was $334.
With a price tag like that, we knew they would be good. In fact, they were 3rd row on the floor! Just so you can appreciate the expense here, there are 45 home games in a season ticket package. That means, someone or some company wrote check for a little over $60,000 for our four seats.
A really nice guy named Chris was sitting behind us. As it turns out, he is one of the guys that sells the season tickets. He pointed out several people around us that were "important", including "Don", an eccentric 67 year old gentleman who owns half the land in Uptown (Dallas area) and gives a lot of money to charities and the church and supports a lot of missionary work. He sat next to the founder of Minyard's Foods. Supposedly, the founder on Minyard's has actually had to be escorted out of American Airlines Center before because when he gets upset with the game, he gets really upset!
Anyway, so much for my brush with money-laden people. I can't afford two seats worth of season tickets in that locale or anywhere else close to court-level. The good news is that even though I really enjoyed myself, I don't "need" all that. It was just great to soak it all in with three of my good friends!
By the way, I uploaded a couple pics from my iPhone to my Facebook page. If you want to see them, look me up on Facebook!
Kevin
I had an offer from a good friend to attend the Dallas/Portland NBA game Wednesday night and although I am not a big NBA fan, I chose to go along for the company and the experience. It just so happened that these tickets were free to us but the price printed on them was $334.
With a price tag like that, we knew they would be good. In fact, they were 3rd row on the floor! Just so you can appreciate the expense here, there are 45 home games in a season ticket package. That means, someone or some company wrote check for a little over $60,000 for our four seats.
A really nice guy named Chris was sitting behind us. As it turns out, he is one of the guys that sells the season tickets. He pointed out several people around us that were "important", including "Don", an eccentric 67 year old gentleman who owns half the land in Uptown (Dallas area) and gives a lot of money to charities and the church and supports a lot of missionary work. He sat next to the founder of Minyard's Foods. Supposedly, the founder on Minyard's has actually had to be escorted out of American Airlines Center before because when he gets upset with the game, he gets really upset!
Anyway, so much for my brush with money-laden people. I can't afford two seats worth of season tickets in that locale or anywhere else close to court-level. The good news is that even though I really enjoyed myself, I don't "need" all that. It was just great to soak it all in with three of my good friends!
By the way, I uploaded a couple pics from my iPhone to my Facebook page. If you want to see them, look me up on Facebook!
Kevin
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