The evening started out with a line that snaked all the way around the building. It seemed like there were thousands of people there. When we finally made it inside, we chose to sit on the floor right in front of the crash barriers. This was a little worrisome but I was optimistic. PBR tall boys calmed my nerves. There would be many trips to the bar.
Since Jennie was out of town this weekend, I went with Tom and a couple of his friends, Phil and Neve.
Lacey, Jennie's friend (a.k.a. Carmen Getsome), skates (rolls?) with Grave Danger, one of the Rat City Rollergirl teams. They pretty much got destroyed by Derby Liberation Front (another RCR team), but it was still super fun to watch. And she was AWESOME. Oh yeah, also, she proposed to her boyfriend before the bout. He said, "are you serious?" (then yes, I think).
Grave Danger Bench
Derby Liberation Front Bench
I didn't know much about the rules of roller derby so it took me a little while to figure it out. It's probably just easier to link you to the wikipedia page that describes the rules if you're interested. Or you can just trust me that its awesome. If you have an opportunity to see it, you should.
Moving on... Friday was also awesome. Scott and I went up to Seth's place and watched the NCAA tournament all day. We got there at about 9am. Seth immediately made us all gigantic omelettes and cinnamon rolls while Scott whipped up a great batch of Bloody Marys. I'm not a huge fan of the Bloody Mary but Scott is a bit of a connoisseur. They were delicious. One of the most filling breakfasts ever was followed up by one of the better NCAA bball days in recent memory. We watched Duke barely escape Belmont, Western Kentucky beat 5 seeded Drake in OT, and San Diego beat 4 seeded UConn in OT. Of course, all of the basketball and beer consumption was exhausting, so Seth made us some sandwiches which were consumed with more beer, obviously.
Enough for now...
7 comments:
I don't think we watched Duke barely escape Belmont. I think that happened on Thurssday. Still, it was an awesome day.
good call... the 32 games over 2 days are running together.
What?!? No mention of me at the Roller Derby?
What a crock...
Damn... those sandwiches look good!
Sebby, I have a whole post coming up about you...
Awesome. My own post.
I can't wait...
So, I couldn't get my Dad to post this (from an email to me after reading this post) in the comments but I wanted to include this story because I think its a great story that relates to this post... maybe I think its great because I don't get a ton of these stories from my Dad, but maybe also its just a great story. Hard to say... but here it is anyway.
...When I first moved to Florida (I think even before I met your Mom) we used to go to War Memorial Auditorium in Ft Lauderdale about once a week and watch rollerderby.. they skated on a banked track that they set up and not unlike your experience, lots of beer was consumed. You didn't want to get too close to the track because the skaters frequently landed in the audience, and folding chairs were usually the weapon of choice... lots of screaming, waaaay better than any wrestling match... wow... what a great time. I don't think I ever went with your Mom, she has no recollection of ever going, but we (The Taylor Family and all of the bachelor guys) went a bunch of times and did we ever have fun...
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