NY Rangers

Of all the four major league sports, ice hockey is definitely the bottom of the barrel in my opinion. Which is kind of weird considering I grew up going to Capital games weekly. I feel like I just outgrew it and focused more on football and baseball. The knock on hockey is that its boring to watch on TV but might be the most enjoyable live. Football on the other hand is the complete opposite; more fun on TV than live. The action at a live hockey game is priceless. The fights (on and off the ice), the blue-collar drunks and the cool air drifting off from the ice to your seats. It also doesn't hurt when you're three rows from the ice with an unlimited supply of beer. Let me explain...

I was invited through my dear beautiful friend Christina to the Rangers game last night. Lets just say looking at the face value of the seats, and we had four of them, we could do some serious damage at Lavo. Remember, I think in terms of Lavo money now. We enter the Garden through a private entrance and get lead to our seats. It would be a little nicer if we were the first row so we could bang on the glass, but beggars can't be choosers. There is waitress service but ten bucks for a beer, umm no thanks. I'll take my chances outside. And boy did we hit the jackpot. With our tickets we were granted access to the Garden lounge with a restaurant and bar with TVs if you want to watch other sports. I've noticed the past few times that there is a conference type room off to the side with free food and drinks. There is a "bouncer" but he looks like an complete idiot. (Side note- I might make fun of Eric a lot for being cheap, well he is, but he has taught me a very valuable lesson in life: Walk into a room "as if". Walk into a room as if you belong.) That being said, I take Christina's hand and we walk right by the bouncer and into a room filled with an open bar and buffet style food. Yes ma'am, I'll have another please. Once we were in and settled we asked some guys, who looked our age and seemed cool, what this room is all about. They said its for SkyBox ticket holders only. We just had club tickets. Oops. They laughed. They didn't care. But they said something funny. They said it looked like we didn't belong because we were eating the food. It was a dead give away. Christina and I had noticed no one else was eating and we were confused. They then explained that the food is way better in the SkyBoxes and no one eats the food down here. They were saying this as I juggle a plate of Caesar salad, Buffalo Chicken Egg Rolls and BBQ Pulled Pork Sliders.  I didn't care. "Hey, I'm Retired at 28!"