dollarbill44
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That's an awesome story and is further evidence of what you can get by showing up on life.Funny story…….. to me anyway. About 15 years ago, I was in Cuse for Christmas with my wife, 2 sons and a daughter.
one day after Christmas, I decided we were going to go exploring around SU and see what we could see. My wife and daughter decided to go shopping instead. Me and the 2 boys drove to the Dome and went in and looked around. Then we drove to the Melo center and checked the doors but they were closed and locked. We were disappointed to say the least. We tried every door, even to Manley, everything locked. We went back to the car to drive home.
Just then, a family walked up to the door and waited. I decided we should go wait there too. A few minutes later someone came and opened the door and we tailgated right in with the family. It turned out the family had won a tour of the melo center and everyone assumed we were with them. We got a full tour, the training rooms, the weight rooms, the coaches offices, the film room. Then we got to watch practice for about 30 minutes! It was awesome.
Two points about practice:
1) JB wasn’t even there while the individual drills were going on. Then when the team drills started, JB showed up and he was the only one who said a word (Very loudly)
2) there were two kids shooting on the second court during team drills. I later figured out that was Buddy and Jimmy.
My boys and I still remember this day and recall it often. Sure helped to cement their SU fandom, although it didn’t need a lot of help. My wife and daughter are still pissed they missed out!
I've gotten impromptu stadium tours on off-days just by loitering and asking someone if I could just come in and get a glimpse of the court/ field.