Playoff party: The next best thing to being there
No need to despair. We're here to help enhance your non-venue viewing experience and to help, well, jazz up your postseason from the really cheap seats. These tips could make you happy that you don't have to hang out with your bragging buddy in the nosebleed section:
Look on the bright side
Obviously, there's an added element of excitement when you get to attend a game in person. If not, fans wouldn't take out a third mortgage to buy tickets (and, yes, we're talking for Jazz games, not for Hannah Montana).
But there are some benefits of not watching the game in the arena. A few include:
• No bathroom lines — and no stepping over/on people and kicking over drinks to get to the aisle that leads you to the line that you hope eventually leads you into the restroom.
• You won't have to start shopping for hearing aids if you forget to wear your earplugs.
• No need to pay $15 parking fees or swear about getting a towing boot attached to a tire if your "unbelievable free parking spot" was indeed too good to be true.
• Bear can't plaster you with a can of stringy fluorescent spray.
• Upset fans can't plaster you with a cup of beer.
• Don't have to explain to your kids what those four-letter words exiting a certain salty-tongued coach's mouth mean.
• Nobody tries to sign you up for a credit card in exchange for a low-quality T-shirt.
• No rushing to avoid traffic — to get the bathroom (again!) and to your car (that you hope didn't get a towing boot).
Throw your own party
For a more intimate postseason atmosphere, just bring the party to your house — and don't invite a certain 19,911. Basically, you really only need three things for a successful sports party — and, don't worry, doilies with Jazz colors aren't one of them. All you need is a TV (one with cable or satellite that's made after the Stockton-to-Malone era if possible), some people (not fans of the opposing team unless your sometimes-annoying Lakers fan friend can agree to be civil) and food (the most important of the three, of course).
Josh Pelton, sales manager for Utah Food Services, joked that having food at a sports party is a must.
"It's always nice to have food as a centerpiece," he said. "It's like peanut butter and jelly. You don't eat a spoonful of jelly alone."
Recent comments
I am one of those 19,911 who will be to every play off game! I am...
Anonymous | April 19, 2008 at 11:55 a.m.
:-( i am not there.
GO JAZZZZZZ
Sinan | April 19, 2008 at 3:35 a.m.
