Word: fields
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Chicago Cubs (I'm from Chicago) against the Houston Supersonics, who have very nice multi-colored uniforms. Now, usually the Supersonics play in the Superdome down in Texas, but that day, of course, they had to run, jump, throw and kick in the beautiful confines of Comiskey Field, otherwise known as Cubs Park, where the Cubs always play...
...created so much excitement one day that a huge crowd formed around Ernie so that when one of the Houston Mariners kicked a field goal into the stands, no one noticed. Now usually when someone kicks a field goal into the crowd, everyone goes wild and runs after it to get his hands on a real basketball...
...Ernie Banks, who had a lot of field goals in his time, was not the only biggie there that day. Bill Veeck was sitting right behind me. Now Bill is the manager of the other baseball team in Chicago, the Twins. I thought it was rather odd that he should be at a Cubs game. So I went up to him and asked why he was there. He told me he was a big baseball fan and he didn't care who was playing so long as someone was. Well, I didn't buy that, so I asked...
...then, half-time had begun. But Comiskey Field must be pretty cheap because instead of a marching band with majorettes and all, they just had an organ. It wasn't even a marching organ. Even worse, they played idiotic selections like the Mexican hatdance song. Where's the spirit in that? What happened to the Notre Dame fight song...
...second half was much shorter than the first half for some reason. Only one interesting thing happened. Some old guy who had been sitting in a pit under the stands stormed out of his hole all of a sudden and walked onto the field. He said a couple of things that I couldn't hear to some guy standing on a little hill in the middle of the field (I could never understand why he stood there--right where he was most likely to be hit in the head with one of the pucks), who is called the guard. Anyway...