Jason@Sonics - Squatch Spotted
A friend at work has season tickets for Seattle Supersonics NBA basketball. He's been looking to take me for a couple of months now, so I agreed to go tonight. I'm not a basketball fan, but I enjoy watching live sporting events in general. This event was fun but it also confirmed my assumption that basketball isn't really my full court press.
The Sonics game was against the Chicago Bulls which seemed fitting on the weekend where Chicago Bears are playing in the Super Bowl. As Basketball games go, it was a good close game, but unfortunately the Sonics lost 101 to 107.
At the risk of insulting the fans, I would have to say that I enjoyed the spectacle surrounding the game more than the game itself. One of my favorite treats was watching the various shenanigans of the Sonics mascot, Squatch. Squatch agrees to come out of hiding from the Cascade Mountains for each Sonics home game and does a great job getting the crowds all fired up. (Squatch is not to be mistaken for his brother Sasquatch who lives in Mount St. Helens or mistaken for his cousin, Yeti, who lives in the Himalayas). Squatch did a half time performance which included a trampoline routine where he made a basket after catching the ball mid-air and pulling a front flip. I'm going to make sure to seek his autograph the next time I attend a Sonics game.
