As some already know, Colin has become a huge sports nut. When he gets home from school he turns on the TV not to watch cartoons but to see if there is a game on (so proud). Last weekend, at the last minute, I decided to get some Timberwolves tickets. Colin has been wanting to go, and they are somewhat decent this year. I actually thought it would be fun too. On Saturday I purchased 3 tickets so Justin could go to his first T-wolves game. Angie decided she would rather stay home and have some good quality Adam time. I can't blame her, but we were definitely glad she didn't come--more on that later. We got there early because it was Crunch's Kids Day. They had all kinds of fun stuff set up for the kids like face painting, games, music, etc.
After all that fun, we loaded up on our junk food and headed up to our seats to watch the introductions and get ready for game time. About half way through the first quarter, a Timberwolves employee came up to me and asked if it was just the 3 of us. She proceeded to say that some season ticket holders with 3 seats weren't going to make it to the game. They called in and said to give their tickets away to someone with kids in the upper level. She then asked us if we wanted the lower levels seats. Absolutely! We loaded up and headed down but couldn't figure out where these seats were. After speaking to two different ushers we were directed to COURT SIDE SEATS, can you believe it! I still can't, here are our before seats and after seats.
To say the least, it was quite an experience to be 2 feet away from the court of play. The boys thought it was cool, but I don't think they quite grasp what a once in a lifetime experience that probably was. Contrary to what they think, that is not how we usually roll. :) And then if court side seats weren't enough, it was the best game I had been at. Wolves trailed much of the game taking the lead a few times in the fourth quarter. The Wolves were on our end for the second half so we got to see all the Wolves action right in front of us.
Then down by 1, the defense makes a stop and gets the rebound. They call a timeout with 8 seconds left and a chance to win the game. They inbound the ball to Kevin Love who drives to the basket and gets fouled on his shot with 0.1 seconds left on the clock. K-Love was as cool as Colin under pressure and of course knocked the two freethrows both down for a last .1 second victory! Colin and Justin showed the court siders how to properly post game celebrate a great victory and in the process one-uping the Wolves Dance Team.
