The Color Guard Incident

Ok so Lets start this from the begining. We arrive at the MCI center to a great welcome, we park in the press garage that was under the stands and about 100 meters from the court. We unload and walk around the stadium about 4 times with one of the guys who helped us get this gig, he was trying to square everything away and was quite stressed. So then we get to run through our routine on the court. Like I said before I haven't really followed basketball since the Bulls were the shit. SO someone from the wizards was on the court shooting. Who was sitting over on the side of the court 20 feet from us? Old school Bulls, Scottie Pippen and Horace Grant. They glance our direction and that was it, we were too busy trying to figure everything out to get a chance to talk to them. So then the cooridnator tells us that the Air Force Honor Guard was gonna be on court with us in a V formation. We didn't have much problem with it then but we do later. So they show up, we get our positions and think its all set to go. We go to our little locker room set up for us and change into our uniforms. Who comes in to welcome us? Gheorghe Muresan the 7 ft 10 in Giant who you may remember was in a kid movie My Giant. That was pretty cool.

SO we change get ready line up for the main event. The honor guard goes out before us and get in their V formation and everything goes to Hell. We start to come out and they are in our way. This was our lead rifle(the first guy) first detail ever. So amidst our stop and go between him trying to figure out where to go and their staff telling us to stop and then go NOW. We were forced to cut through the honor guards formation. I am pretty sure it looked like shit. If the fucking Honor Guard hadn't came, we'd have looked awesome. Don't get me wrong these guys were awesome and had some really good rifle tricks but they didn't do any. There was absolutly no need for them to be there. SO we then marched out and called people we knew and found out we weren't nationally televised. If the would have shown us when we were in position and leaving we would have looked good, but getting to our spot was very disappointing. Then some went to the seats for the tickets they gave us, which was one row from the last seats in the whole stadium. WTF? we were just center stage, now were last row? But Tom, Lead rifle, and I spent most the game walking around the halls drinking beer, checking out honeys and going outside to smoke. Going outside was kinda bad because all the homeless people come up and tell you stories to try to get money. We finally went to our seats towards the end of 3rd quarter and the rest of the team was ready to go. We took the elevator back to the press entrance where our van was. We got off the elevator to see some of the Wizards dancers shaking their asses!! They came out and talked to us a bit, a friend snapped a pic of me and Katie. I will post a couple pics when I get home tonight, they didn't turn out too good, since he was on the sidelines. We are trying to find pics online, I have no clue who sung the National Anthem but I think she was famous. If anyone sees it let me know.