Basketball My dreams came true tonight... COURTSIDE!!!

Steve_O_21

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So, some of you may already know that I have season tickets for the Pacers this season. It's been a fantasy of mine since I was about 10 years old to have season tickets and this year it finally happened. They're not the greatest seats in the world but they're MINE!! Well I posted a few weeks ago how former Pacers great Darnell "Dr. Dunk" Hillman came up and gave me and my buddy 2 lower level tickets very randomly and it was the coolest sports related experience of my life. Well tonight tops that 10 fold.

We were sitting in our seats as usual (Sec. 227, Row 6, Seat 6 & 7) and Bowser, the Pacers 2nd mascot comes up and sits with us and is goofin around. That was cool but not all THAT unusual. Well about 30 seconds later, we see Lauren, the Pacers jumbotron girl that comes in the stands and announces all of the game night specials and giveaways and crap. We pay no mind to it because again it's not THAT unusual. Well as we sit there watching the game/her (because she's pretty damn hot), the camera on the jumbotron cuts to her and she says "hey fans we're here with tonight's winners of the Kia Motors Ticket Upgrade!" and there's a camera right in our faces. I was frozen and then Bowser proceeds to wrap a t-shirt over my head and smother me. Once I could see again there's 2 guys telling us to follow them and that they're going to show us to our new seats. I can't really describe in words how awesome this all was. Well we went from this ticket...

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to this ticket...

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They gave us this shirt too...
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Well there's not a lot I can say to describe how awesome sitting courtside is, so I'll just post some pictures. Didn't have a camera other than the one on my Sidekick, but these still turned out decent.

coming out of the player's tunnel...
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walking past the Lakers bench...
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in the huddle with the Pacers...
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McBob gettin some PT tonight
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Kobe droppin a freebie...
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Me gettin some camera time :D
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... and again...
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Had to get a shot of the Pacemates;)
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Kobe again...
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Needless to say I'm still freakin pumped right now from the experience.

Oh and did I mention that Troy Murphy had a game winning tip-in as the buzzer sounded?? That's right, PACERS WIN!!!!! We're 2 for 2 against the 07-08 Finals teams.
 
that's awesome Steve! Congrats on the seat upgrade!! Did you get honored at mid-court and everything too? You picked a helluva game to go courtside...

Go Pacers!!!!!
 
Ground Support said:
that possession started it out so dang sloppy, no one in the world thought the pacers were going to pull it off.


Including me! I thought for sure that Rasho had lost the ball and we would end up playing the foul game. Never saw that ending coming at all. I can barely speak right now because I have no voice. Best game I've ever been to.
 
Seanboy24 said:
that's awesome Steve! Congrats on the seat upgrade!! Did you get honored at mid-court and everything too? You picked a helluva game to go courtside...

Go Pacers!!!!!

They didn't take us on the court but I can't complain about a thing. We ended up getting on the jumbotron when they first announced it and then later in the 4th quarter we got on the big screen again, acting like idiots.
 
WOW! The pics are awesome!
What a freakin experience that must have been :D

Couldn't happen to a more die hard Pacers fan!
You are the most die hard Pacers fan I know haha

What must have topped off your night was the INCREDIBLE game :D
 
That's amazing! Congrats.

Why can't the Pacers just play the great teams like the Celtics and Lakers. They'd be unstoppable.
 
Damn thats a good price. $130 for floors? For the Raptors its $600 a seat for floors.

I have seasons for the Raptors as well 6 seats Section 104 baseline primes. The face value on them is $181 each.

I wish it was cheaper to go to games here.
 
orangejello727 said:
Damn thats a good price. $130 for floors? For the Raptors its $600 a seat for floors.

I have seasons for the Raptors as well 6 seats Section 104 baseline primes. The face value on them is $181 each.

I wish it was cheaper to go to games here.

The center court floor seats are $300 a piece. There are like 4 seats RIGHT NEXT TO the opposing bench (scorers table, 4 seats, visitors bench) and I think those go for like $700 a piece.
 
Steve_O_21 said:
The center court floor seats are $300 a piece. There are like 4 seats RIGHT NEXT TO the opposing bench (scorers table, 4 seats, visitors bench) and I think those go for like $700 a piece.


It was vs the lakers. It cant get any better than that!! Thats a great experience.
 
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