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April 04, 2004
Awesome link. Quibbles: Weird that they have Yankees-Mets@Yankees and not Yankees-Sox@Fenway, which I think most baseball purists would argues is the vastly better venue and certainly a better rivalry. I'd personally add a Super Bowl, a Michigan-OSU game at the Big House, and above all a Duke-Carolina game @ Cameron- it's a far better atmosphere and location than a final four, which are held in a big, soulless football stadium. And to get the best tickets you need to be under 18 and get accepted to Duke first. :) I've been to final fours (men's and women's), I've been to NCAA football national title games, and I've been on staff at a Super Bowl. None of them compare to Duke-Carolina @ Cameron. The energy level, the intensity, and the quality of the competition are just great. [I have not yet done Yankees-Sox @ Fenway, with a little luck I'll do that this year.]
posted by tieguy at 09:10 AM on April 04, 2004
Sadly, the only one of those 50 I've done is #15: Watch non-stop sport on TV for a whole weekend. Hell, who hasn't? I did see a Boca Junior game in Buenos Aires; unfortunately, they weren't playing River Plate. That didn't stop the Boca fans from chanting profanities about River Plate the entire game. Considering how insane the atmosphere was at that game, I'm sure a Boca-River game would be sheer anarchy (in a good way).
posted by aupa_athletic at 11:52 AM on April 04, 2004
Play tennis with Chris Evert 1. Repeatedly call her "Jim Everett." 2. Get punched. 3. Profit.
posted by molafson at 12:55 PM on April 04, 2004
Did someone say Jim Everett? (Note: It's a movie.)
posted by blarp at 07:54 PM on April 04, 2004
19 Get a front-row seat at a Los Angeles Lakers game DiCaprio, Pitt, Carrey and, of course, Spike Lee and Big Jack: Silly brits. Spike Lee would only be there if the Knicks were in town. And thanks for the follow-up links, gspm. I couldn't find a "next" or "part 2" anywhere. And yeah, what aupa-athletic said. Well, I've seen the Highland Games, but that was in Tulsa, so that probably doesn't count.
posted by Ufez Jones at 09:23 PM on April 04, 2004
This caught my eye. >The rules for entering the Plymouth-Dakar Challenge are simple: competing cars must cost less than £100 and a limit of £15 is placed on any improvements made to the car. Once the rally is under way teams are on their own, receiving no formal assistance from the organisers.
posted by Philfromhavelock at 10:54 PM on April 04, 2004
Good list - I've done four (Monaco, Wimbledon, TV weekend and the Old Course). I would have included the Ryder Cup and the Grand National.
posted by JJ at 04:14 AM on April 05, 2004
tieguy, what were you on staff for at the SB?
posted by wfrazerjr at 11:35 AM on April 05, 2004
wfrazerjr: lame internship with the host committee, doing mostly random marketing shit- nothing special, just an internship that let me get in enough places to see some cool stuff. This was Miami, 1995. Super Bowl is fun and all, but most of the tickets go to people who either don't care about the teams involved or are too rich to actually cheer.
posted by tieguy at 12:15 PM on April 05, 2004
too rich to actually cheer is that a medical condition? do the money clips, cufflinks, and fur coats weigh them down so that they are unable to clap? :)
posted by lilnemo at 12:49 PM on April 05, 2004
It's a broad, crass generalization. But with some serious roots in my observations across World Series, Super Bowls, and the NCAA. Boils down to this: If I'd gone to the final four this weekend, it's because I sacrificed a hell of a lot to get there. I would have cheered my ass off. Have, at two final fours. A good friend of my dad's, with more money than he knows what to do with, has tickets second row at every Marlins game. He uses them maybe one game of ten, because the cost of the tickets means ~0 to him. He was on the front page of the Miami Herald when they won their first series- if you can get a copy of the picture, you can tell which one he is because he's the last person in the picture to stand. :) Fans who do more to go to games care more, generally. Pretty simple.
posted by tieguy at 04:42 PM on April 05, 2004
It might not be obvious on the page provided but the list continues... part 2 and part 3.