yesterday at the last minute, nathaniel and i went to the SOLD OUT canes' game against buffalo. nathaniel hates buffalo. i think i've always "liked" them because #1 eric cole is from buffalo (not the team, the town), and #2 their fans are just rabid hockey fans.
well last night, the buffalo fans were there in full force. nathaniel says it is because of the RBC Center's close proximity to the confined area of relocated yankees (CARY)... i'd say between 5 and 10% of the crowd were buffalo fans. young ones, old ones, annoying 20 something ones, etc.
overall, the middle-young aged fans were quite annoying, although entertaining. they were loud, obnoxious, and rude, but they would get under the skin of other c.a.r.y. hurricane's fan that would keep us interested. like these 3 22 year old boys sitting one row up and 10 rows over from us. they were screaming about lets go buffalo or some crap during a commercial timeout and this guy who was walking down to his seat (by the glass) who was carrying 2 ice creams stopped to yell back at them. i have no idea what he was saying (i think it was something about their goalie), but the kids started saying "just go eat your ice cream" and then the yelling would continue. (the yelling was RIGHT over the head of the guy sitting in front of us.)
i suppose most carolina fans realize the intensity of their rival buffalo fans, so they brought things to the game were funny. (and i didn't get some of them.) first, there was a yellow, blown up banana (like the kind of toy you win at the guess-your-age game at the fair). next, some canes fan had a rope with a stuffed buffalo on the end. that one is obvious... but the banana? they even had a banner on the jumbotron that said "contrary to popular belief, bananas do not grow in buffalo." apparently, people think the buffalo's jersey design looks like a banana.
i guess i can see the resemblance. some some other funny things...then there was a chick in a yellow shirt that would turn around and flip off the canes fans everytime we got up to cheer for a GOAL we made... and the loud mouths on the TOP TOP row that were yelling for buffalo...
anyway, i just wanted to report funny things from the game last night. good thing the canes won!
and nathaniel was right. buffalo fans are assholes.
Hmm... now I see why I don't like newe things... And why I haven't switched formats... To re-enter, so that hopefully it only makes sense to a few later... "I've got a new one for you... Buck Fuffalo!"
ReplyDeleteLike you said, guess that's the karma for cursing, even if it's "reversi"... ;)
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