8th grade field trip to watch the California Angels lose. Don’t recall who they were playing.
And some time later we watched the Harlem Globetrotters West Coast team win at the Rotunda in the Las Vegas Convention Center (back when there was a rotunda…).
Who would ever want to attend a professional sporting event? I mean, unless you or your family member or your SO is competing… Then you could join and get drunk and get in a fight, punch a couple of faces in, insult a policeman, spend a night in jail, that would be fun. But otherwise, no thanks.
I was going to say never…and then I remembered I went to a WWE thing around a decade ago…and then I remembered that Pro-Wrestling isn’t a sport, it’s just entertainment, so I went back to never, which isn’t a choice option.
If NPSL soccer counts, last year. If not, it would either be Saints-Cowboys or an exhibition game between the Pelicans and the Thunder a couple years back.
I’m not sure I understand the question… Why is a children’s activity being prefaced with the word “professional”?? Someone should really do something about these parents. First it’s dance moms now “professional” sports. Someone think of the children.
Unless you count minor league, I have only been to one pro game. We went to a Chiefs v. Panthers game, in KC, back in about 2006. I’m not a fan of either team, so I cheered for the Panthers.
Either it was to watch my Tampa Bay Buccaneers lose, or my Miami Dolphins lose. It has been awhile. Prior to that, it was watching the Orlando Magic lose from the upper troposphere. I had to use binoculars to watch the Mega-Vision screen to see the game. It limits your sense of participation when you’re pretty sure that you can see the field/court from your seats.
While in college, I went to all the home football games (tickets were free for students willing to stand in line for the limited number of them) and we won every game I attended. I saw Sebastian Janikowski bounce the ball off the uprights during the after-TD kickoff, more than once in a game.
Akron Rubber Ducks double A baseball. The stadium is 15 minutes from my house. It’s a nice way to spend a couple of hours. Minor league stadiums are small enough that there aren’t any bad seats.
@mehnyblooms i loved a Reading Phillies (PA baseball farm league) game i went to with a work group. Very nice stadium, fun game. Norfolk Tides stadium is not quite as nice (seats with NO legroom, I’m short and felt that way) but game was still fun (that was with kids’ Boy Scouts). I actually prefer farm team to pro for baseball (went to multiple pro games in multiple cities w Dad and bro as a teen): you feel more involved and the atmosphere is nicer.
Disclaimer: not a baseball fan in general, was always someone else’s idea and i just tagged along for family/friend fun. Same goes for the 2 ice hockey games I’ve attended. The numerous Philadelphia Eagles games (both Philly and Dallas: attended 6 games in Dallas and Eagles won every time, Go Eagles) i was slightly more engaged but still not my idea.
Bottom Line: For those of you who say “never been” I’d suggest if someone offers a farm team baseball game outing and you like the person/the group: go, it should be fun even if you care nothing for the game/teams. It’s like a really good picnic (hot dogs and drinks, friends and conversation, music and cute activities), with a background of a game.
@Kawa Based on this poll and the comments it would seem there are very few. I don’t follow too many teams, but I do enjoy some quality European football. I’m very happy that Swansea beat the drop.
I saw Bayern get all butthurt in the MLS All-Star game a few years ago.
@Oneroundrobb I don’t follow Premier League like I used to, but I was glad to see the Leicester fairytale.
Bayern are my love, though, and I was easily outnumbered 2 to 1 at the Bayern vs RM game last summer. (And yes, I’m salty about this year’s Champion’s League…)
I’m not sure the Harlem Globetrotters count as they are more of a show but other than horse racing that’s the only pro sporting event I’ve been to. The local baseball team, minor league I think but that’s how they make their living so I’d call it pro, is having a fundraiser for the Humane Society, Bark at the Park. I wanted to go and take my dogs for a fun event, but if the idea of sitting through a baseball game is incredibly boring for me, how much more so for them? We’ll all have a lot more fun staying home.
does minor league not count as “professional”? even still it would have been quite awhile, but i used to like going to the pawsox & p-bruins games with my dad.
i went to a ‘real’ red sox game once as a kid and hated it, and moving to boston later in life sealed the lid on that one. people take it too seriously (or too drunkenly) and i just don’t get it. it isn’t fun, and sometimes it’s actually scary. i know not all sox fans are bad, but the large contingent of obnoxious ones have totally ruined that sport for me.
we keep up with football (because my partner likes to) and hockey (because i like to), but the idea of going to a major league game doesn’t really appeal to me (or worse, a bar to watch the game). we have a comfy couch and a nice big tv, i can make a mean plate of wings and we even have booze delivery. why am i leaving, again?
@jerk_nugget I watch a sport where the TV package to watch them is more expensive than just occasionally going out to the bar (I’m generally cord cutting anyway). But I look for bars I actually like drinking in where the crowd is convival but not irritating.
@Kawa that’s fair - where we are it’s more expensive to try to get just internet (vs a bundle) from xfinity which also has a monopoly here, so while we watch most stuff via netflix, amazon, or the internet, we still have cable tv too. (and a landline phone connection which we just don’t use…)
plus during hockey season there’s a game basically every other night. bars are expensive…and in boston a bar that will have the game on and also not be annoying is…well i’m sure they exist but…it’s the tiniest part of the venn diagram anyhow
Only once:
A family friend had a few extra tickets to a local hockey game. It was too loud, for my taste, but it is something to experience at least once.
Do the Drake Relays count? (There’s usually some professional track and fielders competing.) If so that was probably at least 5 years ago but possibly closer to 10.
Prior to that would be a couple of I-Cubs games (last decade or so), a Chi-Cubs game at Wrigley in 1996, and an El Paso Diablos game in 1993. Of those, the Diablos game was the most fun while the Cubs-Rockies game was the most boring.
Fuck sports. They have no use. It’s like advanced trig for the mcd’s lifers… not talking about the ones that go to corporate talking about the ones that never get higher than supervisor…
8th grade field trip to watch the California Angels lose. Don’t recall who they were playing.
And some time later we watched the Harlem Globetrotters West Coast team win at the Rotunda in the Las Vegas Convention Center (back when there was a rotunda…).
Nothing since.
uhhhh…the Rangers sometime or other…
Never isn’t one of the choices?
I’ll keep my money thanks!
Mom won tickets to the Twins last Thursday. No one else could get off work. Before that, it was about a year.
I think maybe never?
Who would ever want to attend a professional sporting event? I mean, unless you or your family member or your SO is competing… Then you could join and get drunk and get in a fight, punch a couple of faces in, insult a policeman, spend a night in jail, that would be fun. But otherwise, no thanks.
Go my favorite sports team, go! They scored a goal unit!
NASCAR race! Vroom, vroom.
It was the hapless Mariners, I can tell you that much.
Never I think.
I was going to say never…and then I remembered I went to a WWE thing around a decade ago…and then I remembered that Pro-Wrestling isn’t a sport, it’s just entertainment, so I went back to never, which isn’t a choice option.
/giphy WWE isn’t a sport
@PurplePawprints neither is NASCAR but someone mentioned that too so I think you are okay with stretching the definition of ‘sport.’
@narfcake
Have at it.
@PlacidPenguin
http://shirt.woot.com/offers/sports-meh
If NPSL soccer counts, last year. If not, it would either be Saints-Cowboys or an exhibition game between the Pelicans and the Thunder a couple years back.
@djslack Never watched NPSL, but did watch Rowdies vs. Cosmos NASL 3 years ago or so and had a whole ton of fun.
11/8/92. Redskins vs. Seahawks at the Kingdome.
I’m not sure I understand the question… Why is a children’s activity being prefaced with the word “professional”?? Someone should really do something about these parents. First it’s dance moms now “professional” sports. Someone think of the children.
Unless you count minor league, I have only been to one pro game. We went to a Chiefs v. Panthers game, in KC, back in about 2006. I’m not a fan of either team, so I cheered for the Panthers.
Either it was to watch my Tampa Bay Buccaneers lose, or my Miami Dolphins lose. It has been awhile. Prior to that, it was watching the Orlando Magic lose from the upper troposphere. I had to use binoculars to watch the Mega-Vision screen to see the game. It limits your sense of participation when you’re pretty sure that you can see the field/court from your seats.
While in college, I went to all the home football games (tickets were free for students willing to stand in line for the limited number of them) and we won every game I attended. I saw Sebastian Janikowski bounce the ball off the uprights during the after-TD kickoff, more than once in a game.
Akron Rubber Ducks double A baseball. The stadium is 15 minutes from my house. It’s a nice way to spend a couple of hours. Minor league stadiums are small enough that there aren’t any bad seats.
@mehnyblooms i loved a Reading Phillies (PA baseball farm league) game i went to with a work group. Very nice stadium, fun game. Norfolk Tides stadium is not quite as nice (seats with NO legroom, I’m short and felt that way) but game was still fun (that was with kids’ Boy Scouts). I actually prefer farm team to pro for baseball (went to multiple pro games in multiple cities w Dad and bro as a teen): you feel more involved and the atmosphere is nicer.
Disclaimer: not a baseball fan in general, was always someone else’s idea and i just tagged along for family/friend fun. Same goes for the 2 ice hockey games I’ve attended. The numerous Philadelphia Eagles games (both Philly and Dallas: attended 6 games in Dallas and Eagles won every time, Go Eagles) i was slightly more engaged but still not my idea.
Bottom Line: For those of you who say “never been” I’d suggest if someone offers a farm team baseball game outing and you like the person/the group: go, it should be fun even if you care nothing for the game/teams. It’s like a really good picnic (hot dogs and drinks, friends and conversation, music and cute activities), with a background of a game.
@mollama Well said.
Jets season ticket holder here. Don’t mock me! They win sometimes, and I like watching football games live for some strange reason…
Does StarCraft II count?
depends. If Monster Jam counts, this year. Otherwise, it’s been a LONG time.
I go to a bunch of Flyers games every year. One or two Phillies games, and an occasional Eagles game.
/giphy Philly sports
Bayern Munich vs. Real Madrid exhibition game when they were touring the States last summer.
Please tell me I’m not the only European football fan mehtizen.
@Kawa Based on this poll and the comments it would seem there are very few. I don’t follow too many teams, but I do enjoy some quality European football. I’m very happy that Swansea beat the drop.
I saw Bayern get all butthurt in the MLS All-Star game a few years ago.
@Oneroundrobb I don’t follow Premier League like I used to, but I was glad to see the Leicester fairytale.
Bayern are my love, though, and I was easily outnumbered 2 to 1 at the Bayern vs RM game last summer. (And yes, I’m salty about this year’s Champion’s League…)
Back in the dark ages we had season tickets to what used to be the San Diego Chargers. And mini-season tickets to the San Diego Padres (the 80s).
For the Chargers we’d take the bus. Even back then it was expensive. And time consuming. We quit going after the last strike.
And we just got burnt out.
Now we don’t follow sports at all.
I’m not sure the Harlem Globetrotters count as they are more of a show but other than horse racing that’s the only pro sporting event I’ve been to. The local baseball team, minor league I think but that’s how they make their living so I’d call it pro, is having a fundraiser for the Humane Society, Bark at the Park. I wanted to go and take my dogs for a fun event, but if the idea of sitting through a baseball game is incredibly boring for me, how much more so for them? We’ll all have a lot more fun staying home.
does minor league not count as “professional”? even still it would have been quite awhile, but i used to like going to the pawsox & p-bruins games with my dad.
i went to a ‘real’ red sox game once as a kid and hated it, and moving to boston later in life sealed the lid on that one. people take it too seriously (or too drunkenly) and i just don’t get it. it isn’t fun, and sometimes it’s actually scary. i know not all sox fans are bad, but the large contingent of obnoxious ones have totally ruined that sport for me.
we keep up with football (because my partner likes to) and hockey (because i like to), but the idea of going to a major league game doesn’t really appeal to me (or worse, a bar to watch the game). we have a comfy couch and a nice big tv, i can make a mean plate of wings and we even have booze delivery. why am i leaving, again?
@jerk_nugget I watch a sport where the TV package to watch them is more expensive than just occasionally going out to the bar (I’m generally cord cutting anyway). But I look for bars I actually like drinking in where the crowd is convival but not irritating.
@Kawa that’s fair - where we are it’s more expensive to try to get just internet (vs a bundle) from xfinity which also has a monopoly here, so while we watch most stuff via netflix, amazon, or the internet, we still have cable tv too. (and a landline phone connection which we just don’t use…)
plus during hockey season there’s a game basically every other night. bars are expensive…and in boston a bar that will have the game on and also not be annoying is…well i’m sure they exist but…it’s the tiniest part of the venn diagram anyhow
Only once:
A family friend had a few extra tickets to a local hockey game. It was too loud, for my taste, but it is something to experience at least once.
Does competitive Air Guitar count?
Nba the lakers against boston i’m with my friends and i eventually L.A loss again.
Do the Drake Relays count? (There’s usually some professional track and fielders competing.) If so that was probably at least 5 years ago but possibly closer to 10.
Prior to that would be a couple of I-Cubs games (last decade or so), a Chi-Cubs game at Wrigley in 1996, and an El Paso Diablos game in 1993. Of those, the Diablos game was the most fun while the Cubs-Rockies game was the most boring.
Fuck sports. They have no use. It’s like advanced trig for the mcd’s lifers… not talking about the ones that go to corporate talking about the ones that never get higher than supervisor…