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| I went to a NLL (lacrosse) game by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/09/2023, 12:23pm PST | ||||
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| On Saturday, my wife and I took our eldest nephew to see the Colorado Mammoth play the Calgary... Calgary's lacrosse team. This is the NLL. Men's professional box lacrosse league!
I want to say this: The actual game of indoor box lacrosse is exciting, interesting, action-packed and an entirely legitimate sport. In another world we'd have 5 "big" professional sports leagues in the US and not 5. Love the game. However. They played arena rock the ENTIRE TIME during gameplay and had an announcer constantly speak over the game. I've never seen anything like it. I did some reading, and I guess having music played is an NLL mandate because "otherwise you might hear the players curse!" Well, that is the rationale I saw. Maybe there is another reason? No sounds play during hockey and I will admit that when I have been to AHL (minor league) hockey games, the stadium experience gets a little low-energy. But hell, it was a little low-energy when I saw the Nuggets play in February 10 years ago when they had no championship aspirations. It's just what happens? But I can go to additional games and the repetition of music isn't there. Reader, they played "Baby Shark" during the game for this lacrosse game. Baby Shark! Without irony! You can't be a major sport playing the equivalent of Old MacDonald during your game. Lacrosse is 10/10 for the game itself though and ultimately a good time was had by all. The Mammoth won, down a few goals early. The rule where the players can't enter the goalie's crease is brilliant, as it had guys flinging themselves through the air to try to score. Clearly 11,000 other people didn't care about the music. ICJ |
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I went to a NLL (lacrosse) game by 01/09/2023, 12:23pm PST  |
