Blazers vs. Magic

This won’t be a play-by-play, but rather a telling of my first Blazers game with my boyfriend. He’s a huge fan of the Blazers and over the past three years we have been together, he has really gotten me into them too. I live in a small town about three hours away from the Rose Garden where the Blazers play. And all Michael will talk about is how much he wants to see a game live. He watches every game on T.V. and listens to the ones that are not on T.V. on the radio. He reads blogs about them and follows the players injuries and successes.

So, for his Christmas present, I bought him two tickets to the game. That is ALL he is getting this year as our seats were VERY good. 🙂 We were about 5 rows back from the floor and two rows back from floor seats. We could see Dwight Howard and his massiveness and Patrick Ewing with his bald head helping the Magic warm up. We both saw Rudy, Lamarcus, Roy, Przybilla, Camby, Miller, and Batum. So amazing!

Every seat had a free red t-shirt on it (sponsored by Google, lol) so that there could be a “red-out” for this particular game. The court seemed smaller when we were that close and the players were much larger. We screamed and yelled and chanted “De-fence”! We sat next to two older men in their late fifties who kept flirting with young women my age. They tried to impress them with their knowledge of players and kept talking about trips to Vegas. That was definitely entertaining. During time-outs and in between quarters they would play music and the cameras would scan the crowd for dancers to show on the big screen which was beyond fantastic. Old men were shaking their booty and young kids were dancing it up, while one young guy held a sign and danced his way out of his sweats. Don’t worry, he was wearing shorts underneath and he kept popping up behind other dancers. Michael and I laughed so hard.

We had a great time, but most of all, Michael had a great time. He bought a Blazersmania book and had it signed by Bill Schonely who was the first play-by-play announcer for the Blazers and still announces the games. Michael’s eyes were lit up and he was so into the game and the players. It made me SO happy that he was so happy. I don’t think I have ever seen him so ecstatic and it was the very best feeling. I definitely enjoyed my time more because of his happiness. I love him so much and that’s all I wanted was to make him smile. He said at the beginning of the game how weird it was to be able to watch the game so close to the players and live when he was so used to seeing it on T.V. night after night. He said it felt unreal. He was all smiles and I wish we could go to every single game this season and every season just to see his face like that and to know how happy he is to just watch his favorite team play basketball.

Oh and Blazers won! 🙂