Fort Wayne LOVES Its Sports

Confession: I'm not a big fan of sports. Not a big fan in that I have this superhuman ability to zone out any conversation that begins to dabble in the lingo of teams, players, and cities. There is generally some shift in the atmosphere or in body language or a key word spoken that permeates my hard outer shell of ignorance and alerts me back into the conversation. It's a serious problem I know.

But even if I hate most sports, I do love me some Hockey! I think it's the fast pace, men likely to fight, and the comfort of a cooled stadium that draw me in.  And Fort Wayne just so happens to have its very own minor league hockey team: The Komets.  When Dad was in town helping me move out here to the Fort, we took in a game.  They unfortunately lost, and apparently the crowd only knows to shout "You suck" when it spoke in unison, but in the last two minutes of the game, the players gave the crowd their money's worth in a rink wide fight. Refs were thrown out of the way, gloves were lost, and quite possibly a stick was broken...with all the padding those players wear...don't feel too badly for them!

I think the anticipation of the game was the best.  We were around town all day and it came up a few times in conversation with various people. Each person would excitedly and somewhat enviously tell us that it was going to be great...one even going so far as to finding a map of the coliseum to show us where our seats were located.

In a somewhat ironic twist, one of the Komet's goalies is on a billboard advertising lasik surgery. The slogan reads, "Lasik eye surgery and making saves two days later." But really, since they lost....what does that say??