Thanks to the kindness of Surf Reporter Brian, Toney, the boys, and I will be attending tonight’s Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins game. The man has connections, many connections, and made arrangements for us to get in for the very agreeable price of nothing. Pretty cool, huh?
I’m looking forward to it. I’m not the world’s biggest hockey fan, but have always been interested in seeing a few games live. I think it’ll be a blast. …Stay tuned for a full report.
And while enjoying another delicious Marlene Colander frozen meal today, I started thinking about the professional sports teams I’ve watched play at their home stadiums. I’ve been to quite a few baseball games, but not much beyond that.
Here’s my current list, not including minor league contests:
Baseball
Cincinnati Reds (Riverfront Stadium)
Philadelphia Phillies (Veterans Stadium)
Pittsburgh Pirates (Three Rivers Stadium)
Atlanta Braves (Fulton County Stadium)
New York Yankees (Yankee Stadium)
Boston Red Sox (Fenway Park)
San Francisco Giants (Candlestick Park)
Los Angeles Dodgers (Dodger Stadium)
Basketball
Atlanta Hawks (The Omni)
Los Angeles Lakers (The Forum)
Football
none
Hockey
none
As you can see, most of the stadiums I’ve visited are now gone, or no longer in use. The two I visited the most, in Cincinnati and Atlanta, have been bulldozed full-on.
I am a relic from a different era.
I’m sure plenty of you have been to more pro sports games than I have. Give us your lists, in the comments section. And if Steve’s reading this, you might want to submit yours in .pdf format. I don’t know if WordPress is equipped to handle the strain of your list. Sweet Jesus.
Toney and I were talking about something a few days ago, and somehow got onto the subject of profane doctors.
I don’t visit doctors very often, because I’m not really a fan. I’m always convinced they’ll want to twist a flashlight into my ass. But two times in my life I’ve encountered cussing medical professionals. Twice, during very limited exposure.
When we lived in California someone suggested an optometrist in Burbank, so I made an appointment. He seemed fairly standard, until he had me in the chair with that big see-thru apparatus pressed against my face.
He started flipping lenses around, and asking if each combination improved my vision or made it worse. Only, that’s not exactly the way he put it.
He’d flick the things for a couple of seconds, then say, “How’s that? Shitty? Is this any better? Did that make it shitty or better? Any better? Shitty? Shitty? Better?….”
It was bizarre. Who talks that way, especially to a person right off the street? I’d never met the man before. I wasn’t offended, of course, it just made me question the professionalism of this so-called doctor. I felt an urge to see his diploma, just to be sure. I had a feeling he might’ve ordered it out of the back of Rolling Stone.
But he turned out to be really good, and took great care of my problematic eyes. That first visit, however, left me scratching my tiny Duke head. Shitty?
Also in California (is a pattern developing?), our second son was born, via C-Section. I was in the room while the procedure took place, standing far enough behind the partition so I wouldn’t have to see anything ripping apart.
There were two docs there and, I kid you not, they made a golf date while extracting our baby. I fought an urge to holler: “Would you guys please focus?! This is kind of a big deal!”
But everything went well, and after Secret 2 joined us, one of the doctors asked if I wanted to cut the umbilical cord. I told him I’d pass, and he said, “Oh, don’t be such a pussy!”
I couldn’t believe it. A pussy?! Does Buck have a brother who’s a doctor in California?? It was all said in a joking way, but I wasn’t exactly buckled-over in laughter.
A nurse pressed some scissors into my hand, and I did cut the cord — against my will. And it felt like I was trying to saw through raw steak. Blecch.
But, pussy? It’s still amazing to me.
Have you had any unusual experiences with doctors? Has anything baffling happened, like with my foul-mouthed eye doctor, or our trash-talking baby-remover? Use the comments section to tell us all about it.
And I’m gonna cut this one a little short (like an umbilical). Both boys are home from school now, and are playing “music” in their rooms. It feels like I’m typing in the middle of a Best Buy store.
But tomorrow I’ll tell you all about our big-time hockey adventure. Should be fun!
See ya then.
I don’t recall any swearing MD’s, but if I didn’t think a surgeon was concentrating while taking a knife to a loved one I think I might have actually asked them to focus.
On the other hand, I have been in the OR now, and I have seen the Doc work and talk and it seemed like he did a fine job.
On to the sports thing…
MLB:
Detroit Tigers (Tiger Stadium and Comerica Park)
NFL:
Detroit Lions (Silver dome and Ford Field)
Buffalo Bills (Whatever the name was in Jan, 93)
NHL
Red Wings (Joe Louis Arena, season ticket holder for 3 Stanley cups)
Boston Bruins (Boston Garden)
NBA
Detroit Pistons (Palace of Auburn Hills and Silver Dome)
NASCAR:
Michigan International Speedway (Grandstand and Pits)
College Hockey:
FSU Bulldogs (Taggart Arena? and the Joe Louis Arena)
College Football
FSU Bulldogs (Top Taggart Field and Valpariso)
Univ. of Michigan (The Bug House)
My little brother and two of his college buddies went to the Superbowl in ’95 (49er’s-Chargers) in Tampa. They were there because they won the Ocean Spray National Tabletop Football Championship. Seriously, it was even on ESPN 2 at 3AM or so.
Damn, I forgot the A’s (Coliseum, Oakland) too.
Oh, we’re doing college events now?
University of Cincinnati Bearcats vs. Ohio University Bobcats (Fifth Third Arena)
Way up in the nosebleed seats and unfortunately right next to a heifer who was vigorously grazing her nachos and commandeering half of my seat with her unruly ass fat. Thanks for letting me relive the memory, Surf Reporters!! Ugh.
MLB
Yankee Stadium
Shea
The Vet
Three Rivers for the MLB All Star Game
Olympic Stadium,,,saw Pedro pitch a 1 hitter for Les Expos
NFL
The Vet
Giants Stadium (for both Giants and Jets
NBA
Spectrum
Meadowlands…to see Jordan and the Bulls
NHL
Madison Square Garden
Meadowlands
Racing
Pocono, Dover (NASCAR)
Nazareth, Pocono, Watkins Glen (Indycar)
Montreal, Mexico City (Formula One)
I am sure this will not be interesting to the WVSR readers, but it was very therapeutic for me….
MLB
Boston Red Sox (Fenway Pahk) (that’s right, Pahk)
Los Angeles Dodgers (Chavez Ravine)
Colorado Rockies (Coors Field)
San Francisco Giants (Steroids Stadium)
NFL
New England Patriots (all of the stadiums)
Los Angeles Raiders (Coliseum)
NBA
Boston Celtics (The Gahden and whatever they are calling the new arena these days)
Los Angeles Lakers (the Fabulous Forum)
NHL
none
As Jeff would say, I’m sensing a theme here. Boston. L.A. Interesting duality.
I grew up in a very small town in S.D., our town doctor(only one) was also the corrinor, and dabbed as a vet when people were healthy. My first visit as a “female” for the initiation to the humiliation of woman hood, He causualy looked up from between my knees and said “I’ve got a cold, I can’t smell a thing, Have you noticed any odor lately? Yep, died right there.
I’m the opposite of a sports fan, yet I’ve been to see the Mets at Shea, Yankees at Yankee Stadium, and the Cubs at Wrigley. Cheap seats all, and no visits since the early 1970s. About five years ago I had several days of work in a building across the street from Fenway, mostly while games were in progress. Yeah, I didn’t think that counted. So far I’ve managed to stay football-free.
I’ve never had a doctor utter any form of profanity in my presence, but I think more of them should. You know, lighten up the mood a little.
NFL:
Many PGH Steelers games (3 Rivers and Heinz Field) including an AFC championship win against the colts.
PGH Steelers vs Redskins (FEDEX Field)
MLB:
Countless Pirate Games (3 Rivers and PNC Park)
Nationals (Nationals Park (Note Fancy Stadium name)
NASCAR – Richmond International Speedway
NHL:
Penquins (Civic Arena/Mellon Arena/Igloo)
Capitals (MCI Center)
Fiesta Bowl 1984 – Pitt Versus Ohio State @Sun Devil Stadium.
Awesome game: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Fiesta_Bowl
After injuring my wrist at work, they sent me to a doctor who is a world renown hand specialist. He walks into the exam room and says, “Sorry I’m late. The guy in the last room got his hand stuck in a combine. It’s all fucked up.” A very excellent doctor.
OK, baseball:
New York Yankees in the old (unrenovated) Yankee Stadium
Boston Red Sox in Fenway Park (twice)
Cincinnati Reds in Riverfront Stadium (a game to remember)
Seattle Mariners in the original Kingdome
Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field (day game, skipping work)
Chicago White Sox at old Comiskey Park (twice)
Football:
L.A. Rams in Anaheim Stadium
Basketball:
Boston Celtics at the Hartford Civic Center (counted as a home game)
Chicago Bulls at the old Chicago Stadium
L.A. Lakers at the Staples Center
Hockey:
Chicago Blackhawks at the old Chicago Stadium
New England Whalers at the Hartford Civic Center (WHL)
Man, I am fuckin’ old. The WHL, for chrissake.
I went to a urologist who had to check the blood flow in my testicles. With his hands all over my junk, he says its normal for everything to be shrinking cos, hey, we just met, right? No cussing, but I thought that comment was weird as hell. He wound up doing surgery on the wrong nut.
Atlanta Fulton County Stadium ya’ll
NLCS – 92 – Sid Bream – The Slide – Braves Win Braves Win Braves Win
’nuff said
Fired a Dr. once – he came in all huffy, “you’re ruiing my lifeuh” attitude – I explaine why I was there and he launches into a disinterested “it’s all your fault, re-engineer your very existence, I can’t believe you’re bothering me” speil – it wasn’t, different story and I can understand anyone in most any profession having a bad day but this was a TAD over the top – so I stop him in mid-lecture and simply say “you’re a dick – you have no talent for this – you’re fired, I’ll find someone else to treat me”.
He looked like I’d hit him with a turd-festooned cinderblock “Wha.. wha… did you say?”
“You’re a dick. You have no business practicing medicine. I don’t believe doctors are gods, and you’re a self-righteous little prick in a shitty lab coat. Bye bye”
I think he wet himself. Hope it changed his life.
My doctor, Dr.Butt Pirate as I so fondly call him, would NEVER cuss but puts up with my rudeness and crudeness…
He deserves a medal.
NFL
Packers – numerous times at Lambeau (including a -30 degree game)
Steelers – 3 Rivers (used to room with Gary Anderson’s brother)
Redskins – JKC Stadium
MLB
Orioles – saw Cal Ripkin hit game-winning HR
NBA
Washington Bullets, er, Wizards – saw MJ in his final year
Pistons in Auburn Hills
NASCAR
Richmond
Indy
Richmond – Danika looks better without a firesuit
Miscellaneous
Columbus GA Arena Football (Vipers)
Columbus GA Hockey (Cottonmouths)
Columbus GA Baseball (Catfish)
Tuskegee-Morehouse Football Classic in, you guessed it, Columbus GA
I live in WV so:
WVU Mountaineers at Mountaineer Field and Coliseum.
Others that don’t count.
Once told my wife’s doctor, who happens to be one of my best friend’s dad, that if he didn’t fix her sore neck (as we were leaving for vacation), I wouldn’t be getting road head. He just shook his head in disgust. I laughed like a hyena.
Well let’s see…when playing HS football, I had a sideline team doc tell me that I “Broke the fuck out of your shoulder–you should really have somebody look at that–oh wait, that’s my job” and the ER doc tell me that “shit don’t bend like that, son”.
As for a list of stadiums, here goes:
NBA: Cleveland Cavaliers at the Q and Gund (Same place, totally different team)
NFL: Browns Stadium–both new and old
Steelers at Three Rivers
Cincy at whatever they’re calling it this year
Hockey: Blue Jackets at Nationwide
Cleveland Lumberjacks (Semi-pro?) at home
Soccer: Columbus Crew vs LA Galaxy @ Crew Stadium
Also was involved in a soccer riot there vs Chicago…good times.
Indy Cars at Mid-Ohio, Cleveland GP, and Indianapolis 500
Nascar at MMS (Trucks) and Talladega (cars)
Baseball: Cubs @ wrigley, Indians at the Jake, Cincy at both, and Pittsburgh on July 4’th for the best fireworks 1997 had to offer.
College Football: Ohio Stadium for 2 seasons, U of M–the big library, Notre Dame, Ohio U, Ohio Northern, Toledo, Bowling Green, Akron, Miami of Ohio, Florida, and strolled past a Louisville football game once.
Misc.–I’ve seen Professional Bull Riding three times, and amateurs hundreds more.
I spend a lot on tickets, I’ve noticed.
NBA:
Knicks vs Buffalo Braves at the New Haven Coliseum
(preseason–Ernie D’s first pro game…1973)
Celtics at OLD and NEW Boston Garden multiple times
NHL:
Bruins at Old and New Garden (The old place was BUILT for Hockey and Boxing)
Football:
Patriots at Old Foxboro Stadium and new Giulette, including last year’s AFC Championship where they beat the Chargers then choked on 18-0
LA Raiders at the Coliseum (The Bo Jackson “You’re in my way so I think I’ll run you over, you undersized Denver Bronco safety” game)
Harvard vs Yale (THE Game)
at Harvard 1982
at The Yale Bowl (best football stadium everrrrrrr) 2007
Inaugural XFL game NY-NJ vs Las Vegas at Sam Boyd Stadium in Vegas
Baseball:
Yankees-Tigers doubleheader 7/2/78 at Yankee Stadium (gone)
(Guidry wins opener to start season 13-0; Goose gets a save and a win in the nightcap)
Fenway to see the Sox ((Worst baseball seats in that place…)
Mariners at the Kingdome (gone)
Giants at Candlestick (froze my ass off….in AUGUST!) I saw a game in Fenway in April one year when it started snowing, and it wasn’t as cold as the Stick on a windy August night)
Cubs at Wrigley vs Braves
Wht Sox at Old Comiskey (gone)
Orioles at Camden
Pirates three rivers and P.N.C.
Penguins season ticket holder.
Steelers three rivers and Hienz.
Cleveland Browns vs. Steelers at old shit hole in the land of Cleve.
Indians at the Jake ..nice field.
Nascar Charlotte and Indy
Indy 500 ’83
NHRA
Columbus
Norwalk
The Strip at Vegas .. real nice.
Gainesville just this past weekend.
Cincinnati Reds (Riverfront)
Cincinnati Reds (Great American)
Pittsburgh Pirates (Three-Rivers)
Pittsburgh Steelers (Mountaineer Field)
Chicago Bulls (Thompson Boling Arena)
NASCAR (Bristol Motor Speedway)
NASCAR (Talledega)
BassMaster Classic (Solider Field)
BassMaster Classic (Superdome)
BassMaster Classic (Greensboro Arena (or whatever))
BassMaster Classic (The Igloo, Pittsburgh)
Okay, I don’t get out much–but they are pro sports damn it!!! Sort of.
Jeff is a pussy.
Dr. Buck–out
Well, hell, since we’re adding college teams….
Tennessee Vols (Neyland Stadium)
West Virginia Mountianeers (Mountianeer Field)
Virginia Tech Hokies (Lane Stadium)
West Virginia Mountianeers (WVU Colisieum)
Tennessee Vols (Tompson Boling –First Game Ever)
Tennessee Vols (Stokley Center)
NC State (Carter-Finley Stadium)
Wel, yeah–it’s a pretty shitty list.
Buck Out
Waaaay back when I was young and still naive I went to see good old doc who had been in business since Christ was a kid. The décor was straight out of the 60’s and obviously was original. Gazing rapturously at the ceiling, he did the obligatory breast exam while his cigarette smoke nurse watched disinterestedly over his shoulder. Suddenly he stops and asks, “Know where I learned this?”
I gulped and timidly answered, “Med school?”
“Nope! Back of my dad’s Ford.”
I was so young I didn’t know what to say….
On sports ….the only thing I have is the Steelers and Bucs at both Three Rivers and Heinz.
However, on the doctor side of things…holy shit…I could write a book considering I have worked for the greedy bastards for over 25 years. The one that sticks out in my mind though?…..
…I worked for a “very professional” plastic surgeon who was seeing a very shy teenager for the fist time about a breast reduction, with mother in tow. Now, let me just tell you…when the good Lord passed out tits…this poor girl stood there long enough to take out a mortgage. Fixated on the gigantious size during the quick but necessary examination, he blurts out, “You have come to the right place…we can definately do something about the size of these ‘ti–“… er, breasts, I mean”. The mother kind of snickered under her breath, shy teenager completely mortified, doctor so red turning purple, and I peed a little. We got outside of the exam room door and I said to the doc…what the fuck is your problem? which his reply was.. “holy fuck!! What the fuck just happened in there?!?” To this day, we still have a good laugh about it.
Pittsburgh Pirates (3 Rivers) — couple of times, one was a 20-inning game with the Cubs
Chicago Cubs (Wrigley)
Chicago White Sox (old Comiskey)
Oakland A’s (Oakland Coliseum or whatever it’s called)
Oakland Raiders (the Black Hole) — the Raiders suck, but home games sure are fun, like being in the world’s biggest biker bar.
Chicago Bulls (old Chicago Stadium)
Utah Jazz (Salt Palace and Delta Center)
Chicago Blackhawks (old Chicago Stadium)
Since we’re including races, I’ve seen the Daytona 500 (a day of my life I’ll never get back), the Indy 500, 24 hrs. at Daytona, LeMans, and F1 in Indy, Montreal, Britain, Hockenheim, and Monza. Plus a bunch of others, but those were kind of minor-league.
Never had any doctors who swore, or who were memorable in any other respect for that matter.
Stadiums:
NFL
Tennessee Titans (LP Field)
MLB
Atlanta Braves (Fulton)
Toronto Blue Jays (have no idea what it’s called)
NASCAR
Atl Motor Speedway
Talledega
NCAA Football
Alabama (Bryant Denny)
Auburn (Jordan-Hare)
Hey Big Bear – I snapped my arm, just below the shoulder joint. It was actually in 3 pieces. Had to wait over night until the surgeon came to repair it. When he got there he said, “Jerry, do you know how badly you are hurt? I said that I was told I had a broken arm. Then he said, “true, but let me explain……. your arm snapped in 3 pieces. You tricep and front deltoid detached from the bone and all that is holding you arm onto your body is skin and blood vessels! It is basically cut off from the inside, but i can fix it!” He did too! Works great now. Just have titaninum for most of my upper arm. Most of the bone is gone. Bill in WV has seen the x-rays. Gruesome.
Had a girlfriend in college, Darcey was her name, who told me that one time while she was at the doc’s office the doc made a somewhat inappropriate comment. He was doing some sort of pelvic exam and while he had two fingers in her cooch and one in her ass simultaneously, he decided that it was the appropriate time to tell her she had a really nice tan and how much he liked tan lines. Not exactly swearing, but still a bit odd.
I haven’t been to many live sports venues:
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Florida State University — Doak Campbell Stadium
NBA
Orlando Magic — TD Waterhouse Center (formerly the “O-rena” and now named something else…)
ECHL HOCKEY
Tallahassee TigerSharks — Tallahassee Civic Center
I gotta say, though, the ECHL (farm-league hockey, about two steps down from NHL) hockey games were great! Being a poor student at the time, the games, usually two a week, were cheap entertainment; about $6 a ticket. You get everything, music, lights, nachos, hot chicks selling beer, fights, and the game itself was fun since the TigerSharks in the early days were pretty good. And the zamboni…don’t forget the zamboni… There’s something mesmerizing about watching a giant toaster scoot around the ice and making it all nice and smooth between periods. God help me if the zamboni driver missed a spot. I need help.
I’ve never had any doctors that swore, but my worst doctor experience was needing a wisdom tooth pulled on Christmas Eve. The oral surgeon wanted to wait until after the holidays, but I didn’t have enough pain killers for two weeks of intractable pain. He was so pissed off that I’m pretty sure he injected me with chicken boullion instead of novocaine just to inflict as much pain as possible in retribution. He then grabbed my head and jammed what looked like a Klingon weapon into my mouth and quickly pried the tooth out. I thought I was going to die, but it got worse when he took that “Marathon Man” hooky thingy and then rooted around the newly formed hole for no other reason that I saw other that to satisfy his grotesque desires. Even with my mouth wratcheted open with another sadistic aluminum apparatus, I was screaming “F*CK!!” (or “HHHUUUUCKKK!”…) so vehemently with blood coming out of my mouth like I was in a “Saw” movie, the nurse got all upset had to leave the room. The doc then jammed a handful of gauze into my mouth and ran from the room screaming “good luck!” with his suitcase and plane tickets. Fifteen minutes after arriving, I drove home with a mouth full of bloody gauze dripping on my shirt and my soul forever tainted. From now on, I’m getting the gas! That’s a tip, write it down…
@Carlos: Yeah, no one should be awake for a tooth pull. I had a botched root canal where they ended up having to extract the fucked up tooth. I got novocaine but it was still unpleasant, what with all the medieval-looking tools and the breakdance moves the oral surgeon did for leverage. I went back a week later and he yanked out a fragment that had surfaced, sans warning or painkiller, and that resulted in a “hhuuuuck!” or two from me. So I can’t even imagine what you went through.
Once had to visit a dentist while on vacation in Oregon, who wore a marijuana leaf medalion, and used a lot of “dudes” and “mans” in his chairside banter. His work was satisfactory, but I kept wondering if he’d take a giggling fit while drilling and filling my molar.
When my wife was having our first child, after 18 hours of labor with no epidural, her female obstetrician told her to stop being a pussy and start pushing harder. She then proceeded to start pushing on her stomach which caused my wife to say, “Get your hands off my stomach you c$nt before I kill you.”
Needless to say, she changed doctors soon after that.
As for pro stadiums, I don’t have the time to list them. My list is really quite long as I’m a huge fan of every sport and have travelled extensively around the US and rest of the world. Three different ones would be the “Stadium” course at TPC Sawgrass, Louis Armstrong Stadium for the U.S. Open and Centre Court (now Rod laver Arena) for the Australian Open in Melbourne.
Football:
E A G L E S! ( The Vet, Giants Stadium, Texas Stadium, Heinz Field)
Cowboys ( Texas Stadium )
Baseball:
Phillies ( The Vet, Citizens Bank Park)
Yankees ( Yankee Stadium )
Rangers ( Rangers Stadium )
Orioles ( Camden Yards )
Pirates ( PNC Park )
Hockey
Flyers ( Spectrum, Wachovia Center )
Penguins ( Mellon Arena )
All-Star Game ’92 both days ( Spectrum )
College B-Ball ( I spit on pro, if u want to call it that, b-ball )
St Johns ( Spectrum )
VILLANOVA!! ( Wachovia )
TIP OFF HAS BEGUN PEOPLE!!!
Nobody in the medical profession that I’ve dealt with has cursed like a trucker.
@ Carlos…. Dude, that was one of the funniest stories I have read!! Don’t have to write it down, it will forever be etched in my head!
Last time I went to the dentist I kept wondering why he was dancing around me while wearing a pair of cocount tits. Then I thought, “Naw, that’s just the gas playing tricks on me.” I hope.
O and how could I forget The Harlem Globetrotters ( Spectrum)
I had to have a physical a few years back. As the doctor was about to grab my boys and ask me to cough, he looked down and said “Hell….your no Bill Clinton now are yah”. F’in mo!!!
Oh, I have also been refused entry to Augusta National. And I was in a clean, newish 4 door sedan and wearing a suit and tie. And I was at the back gate.
The guard was very polite and pointed me to a phone over by the sod farm. He gave me a list of stuff that I could buy for souvineers and told me that if I called the number on the sheet someone from the Pro Shop would bring out my order.
Then he gave me a few ball markers and score cards and we talked about the place for a while. He told me some pretty cool stuff about the club.
MLB
Detroit Tigers – Tiger Stadium
Detroit Tigers – Comerica Park (although I always call it Tiger Stadium)
SF Giants – Candlestick Park
Oakland A’s – Oakland Coliseum
Milwaukee Brewers – Miller Park
NHL
Detroit Red Wings – Joe Louis Arena
Never saw the Wings play at Olympia, but I did the Ice Capades there when I was 6 or so.
LA Kings (playing the Wings) – LA Forum
San Jose Sharks – Shark Tank & Oakland Coliseum
St. Louis Blue (playing the Wings) – Savvis Center
Columbus Blue Jackets – wherever the hell they play
NBA
Detroit Pistons – Cobo Arena/Hall
NFL
Detroit Lions – Silverdome
F1
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve – Montreal
CART/Champ Car
Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport
Laguna Seca Raceway
Detroit – Downtown and Belle Isle courses
Michigan International Speedway
Chicago Speedway
Road America
Long Beach
Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course
Toronto Exhibition Place
Edmonton Airport Course
Milwaukee Mile
Los Hermanos Rodriguez Autodromo – Mexico City
NHRA
Sears Points – Sonoma, CA
NASCAR
Michigan International Speedway (BORING)
Sears Point – Sonoma, CA (nightmare getting into and out of)
IMSA/ALMS
Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course
Road America
Road Atlanta
Laguna Seca Raceway
Long Beach
Crap, how’d I forget Vegas?
Champ Car/CART
Vegas Raceway/speedway – oval
Vegas Street Race around the old downtown – that kicked ass.
’93 Indy 500
Univ of Michigan hockey – Yost Arena – I swore I would never go back I was appalled by the chants of the students.
Chicago Blackhawks ( playing the Wings) – United Center
Me and my boyfriend took our dog to the vet right after Hurricane Katrina and the vet casually threw in as we were discussing the dog the rain and the hurricane how he kissed his first transsexual down in New Orleans. I think even my dog was like wtf?
NHL
Ottawa Sens at Civic Centre
Ottawa Sens at Palladium/Corel Centre/Scotiabank Place
CFL
Ottawa Renegades at Frank Clair Stadium
F-1
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve – Montreal
NHRA
Sanair, Quebec
ISMA
Oswego Speedway (I’ve only missed one Classic Weekend at the big O since Jimmy Shampine raced there. d.1982)
Nascar
1989 Daytona 500 (Tom and Nicole were there filming Days of Thunder – Tommy C did 140mph solo laps before the race while being chased by a chopper w/cameras and they also did crowd scenes…so yeah, I’m in the movie along with 160,000 of my closest friends)
1994 Pocono July
2007 Dover Sept
2008 Louden Sept
Woodstock 1999 (Trust me, it was a “sporting” weekend)