My first hockey game: UNO vs. Michigan State
How was it? Meh.
I’ve only watched hockey on tv so I didn’t really know what to expect. First, this was the first time I had been in the Qwest Center. The Qwest Center is home to the NCAA Volleyball championships and the first round of the NCAA Basketball tournament, so it’s a pretty reputable place. The outside of the arena looks really good, I was very impressed with it. It’s far and away better then the other arenas that I’ve been in (The Devaney Center and Pershing Auditorium). Of course, it’s not saying much because those places are at least thirty years old and Qwest is about five years old, if that.
My roommate and I sat in the student section where the students were being obnoxiously supportive of the team by standing and ringing cowbells. They ring cowbells because the mascot is a maverick and apparently a maverick is a bull. This also happened to be “More Cowbell” night, so the jumbotron obnoxiously played the SNL sketch with Chris Walken where they have the Behind the Music of Blue Oyster Cult and the inexplicable cowbell track on the song “Don’t Fear the Reaper”. This has been so played out, it’s become stupid.
We were about seven rows behind the ice and I could barely see a thing. Between the students standing and two hot chicks being incredibly annoying and having hot asses, it was impossible to pay attention.
From what I know watching ESPN, Michigan State is supposed to have a really good hockey team, but they didn’t show it last night, getting the crap kicked out of them 7-1. Only seeing one game and it having such an extraordinary score, I can’t really tell if this makes UNO good or Michigan State bad. Looking up rankings, UNO is 19th out of about 60 teams where as MSU is about 30th, so it looks like the media believes UNO is better. One stat jumped out at me. UNO has given up the first goal in 8 of 11 games this season, and they just so happen to have eight wins versus two losses and a tie. This leads me to believe that they can play without a lead and still win games.
Overall, the game was just something to do. It was hard to get exciting for a game that I have no emotional investment in. It wasn’t a Husker game and it wasn’t football. Hockey just isn’t exciting without hard hits and a better vantage point to see them. Mostly, what I got out of the game was that I really need a girlfriend. I spent the entire game staring at hot chicks’ asses. There was one who was literally six feet tall. Oh my gosh. My tongue was on the floor with my jaw in my lap. HOT!!!!!!
In the end, eff hockey. It’s stupid. But, I’ll probably go again because of the hot chicks’ asses.
Image source: University of Nebraska at Omaha Athletic Department
Tags: hockey, mavericks, michigan state, omaha, qwest center, spartans, university of nebraska at omaha
