My Trip to Detroit
Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 3:24 am
Sorry, no pics. I don't have a camera and my camera phone is terrible.
Saturday - What a game. Didn't hear a lot of crap from fans and the ushers were unbelievably nice. Said a "what up" to Dickerson. He's a good guy. We jokingly asked Scal "Where's the after party?" and he actually told us where the team was going after the game. We were dead from driving so we headed back to the hotel. The Pistons intro was cool to watch and the crowd was going insane during pregame. Our fast start took them completely out of it. We ended up in an area with a bunch of other C's fans. And by a bunch, I mean 8 or 9, which was about half of the C's fans in the whole arena.
Sunday - Crazy day. We found out where the team was staying and kind of stalked the team, but not in an annoying way. We didn't want autographs, just to see the guys. Nothing else to do in Detroit. We were playing football in the park and Big Baby gets out of a car and asks us if he can throw the rock around. He's a real nice dude. Next thing you know, we are playing against some high school kids that were around. Baby is an unbelievable athlete with the best hands I've ever seen. You could throw the thing anywhere near him and he'd pull it down. He gave us chest bumps, too. He wasn't going full speed but he was talking trash.
Van Gundy and Mark Jackson walked by and were loving it. They talked to us for a few minutes. Very nice guys. We saw Ray and Sam around the street and also saw Powe and PJ walking around. They give you respect when you aren't asking for autographs and pics.
Monday: not as fun. They had terrible hecklers. They were awful. Not awful in a mean way, but just awful hecklers. I have red hair and had a pierce jersey on and they were like "paul pierce doesn't have red hair." It just wasn't funny and didn't even get me mad. I dropped the "Paul would be the best player on the Pistons" after a "paul pierce sucks" and there were no comebacks. The crowd was fairly dead for the most part. Only one section at a time could get the "lets go pistons" chant going. One guy even fell asleep during the third quarter.
Pet peeve: thundersticks. They are annoying and don't even distract the players. They are old.
Saturday - What a game. Didn't hear a lot of crap from fans and the ushers were unbelievably nice. Said a "what up" to Dickerson. He's a good guy. We jokingly asked Scal "Where's the after party?" and he actually told us where the team was going after the game. We were dead from driving so we headed back to the hotel. The Pistons intro was cool to watch and the crowd was going insane during pregame. Our fast start took them completely out of it. We ended up in an area with a bunch of other C's fans. And by a bunch, I mean 8 or 9, which was about half of the C's fans in the whole arena.
Sunday - Crazy day. We found out where the team was staying and kind of stalked the team, but not in an annoying way. We didn't want autographs, just to see the guys. Nothing else to do in Detroit. We were playing football in the park and Big Baby gets out of a car and asks us if he can throw the rock around. He's a real nice dude. Next thing you know, we are playing against some high school kids that were around. Baby is an unbelievable athlete with the best hands I've ever seen. You could throw the thing anywhere near him and he'd pull it down. He gave us chest bumps, too. He wasn't going full speed but he was talking trash.
Van Gundy and Mark Jackson walked by and were loving it. They talked to us for a few minutes. Very nice guys. We saw Ray and Sam around the street and also saw Powe and PJ walking around. They give you respect when you aren't asking for autographs and pics.
Monday: not as fun. They had terrible hecklers. They were awful. Not awful in a mean way, but just awful hecklers. I have red hair and had a pierce jersey on and they were like "paul pierce doesn't have red hair." It just wasn't funny and didn't even get me mad. I dropped the "Paul would be the best player on the Pistons" after a "paul pierce sucks" and there were no comebacks. The crowd was fairly dead for the most part. Only one section at a time could get the "lets go pistons" chant going. One guy even fell asleep during the third quarter.
Pet peeve: thundersticks. They are annoying and don't even distract the players. They are old.
