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Cake day: July 12th, 2025

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  • In my experience no one picks a team, it is typically geography that does it, or it can be you saw a particular game that made you dig a team. Or someone important to you gets you into a team.

    Growing up I was mostly indifferent to sports, I joined the Army was the same until I got married. My wife who spent her formative years in Texas was a huge American football fan of the Dallas Cowboys and the TCU Hornfrogs, so I was indoctrinated.

    The Army stationed us in Maryland and we settled here so we became Ravens fans and she never lost her love for TCU.

    Now I did love one sport growing up and that was Lacrosse. One drizzly night my friends and I were wondering around the grounds of the University of Virginia and we walked into Scott Stadium, as the gates were wide open and I watched The University of Maryland play UVA in lacrosse and it was fucking unreal watching those guys play. As I was a total townie I had to hate UVA soo…

    I fell in love with the UM LAX team and have followed them for decades, as much as I could we not TV and pre-internet days.

    I can count the number of ways that having Maryland as my last duty station benefitted my family and how lucky it was.





  • The key to getting affordable Hockey Games tickets like all pro sporting games is timing.

    Last year my wife and I wanted to see a Capitals Game (NHL team in Washington DC) so we made dinner reservations across the street from the rink and saw that the tickets were like 350 a head. So we decided to just do dinner and roll home. While getting our apps she checked the price of the tickets and they were now 120 a head. We got the tickets and missed a bit of the start of the game, but the seat were three rows from the glass and we got to see Ovechkin tie Wayne Gretzky’s scoring record.

    Not being a big hockey follower we were oblivious that was even happening. So Gretsky was at the game.

    The next time the Capital were playing was in New York at the islander’s rink and the tickets were going or 3500 bucks a piece.

    Sooooo… plan your stadium trip around games and just be willing to be flexible about getting tickets and you should be able to do it for pretty affordable.

    Also look for teams that have loosing records then tend to not sell out…