Step 1. Find out that the day of the national championship of football league that the national championship is going on. Any planning ahead will surely ruin any hopes of getting box seats as you will have already spent money on other tickets.
Step 2. Make sure to not have enough money to buy the tickets at the box office. If you do have enough, you surely will purchase tickets here. However, a visit to the box office is essential as this is where the ‘scalpers’ hang out.
Step 3. Make sure you appear as you have no idea what you are doing. The best way to appear this way is to, in fact, have no idea what is going on. The scalper will offer you tickets at face value, but you will get them for less. In fact, most likely whatever you say you have on you is likely to be the purchase price.
Step 4. Again under the guise of not knowing what you are doing, as you approach your gate make sure all high-school age girls notice that you have regular seats. This is where their boyfriends will be sitting, and undoubtedly, where they will want to sit. What happens next is pure brilliance. They will offer daddy’s box seats for an even swap of your regular seats-and feel like they are getting the better end of the deal—but you must, again, act like you have no idea what is going on.
Step 5. Enjoy hurling and football league; where no pretending is needed, you will have no idea what is going on.
Football League Basics—
As I said, it is somewhat of a cross between Australian rules football and football (soccer). The object of the game is score more points than your opponent. Points are scored by kicking a ball throw uprights (American football uprights) for one point, or kicking it into a goal (world football/American soccer) positioned below the uprights guarded by a goal-keep for 3 points.
Teams try to advance the ball down the field getting the best possible shot at the uprights or the goal. A player can only advance the 10 meters at a time. After 10 meters the ball must either be bounced off the ground, bump passed to a teammate, or kicked. Skilled players will choose to advance the ball on their own further than 10 meters by bouncing the ball to themselves (dribbling it) or kicking it to themselves. Why not just dribble it every 10 meters as this seams much simpler? I am pretty sure players can not dribble the ball in succession; each time they choose to dribble it must be interchanged with a kick to themselves.
Each side plays 15 players at a time, 2 halves lasting 35 minutes a piece. The game is played with a standard round soccer ball. That’s it in a nutshell. Oh yeah, the entire game opposing sides are absolutely whaling on and bludgeoning each other. It’s a real blood bath.
Hurling: Essentially a cross between the above mentioned sport, la-cross, and field hockey. Hope this is helpful. Cheers! Martois.
Step 2. Make sure to not have enough money to buy the tickets at the box office. If you do have enough, you surely will purchase tickets here. However, a visit to the box office is essential as this is where the ‘scalpers’ hang out.
Step 3. Make sure you appear as you have no idea what you are doing. The best way to appear this way is to, in fact, have no idea what is going on. The scalper will offer you tickets at face value, but you will get them for less. In fact, most likely whatever you say you have on you is likely to be the purchase price.
Step 4. Again under the guise of not knowing what you are doing, as you approach your gate make sure all high-school age girls notice that you have regular seats. This is where their boyfriends will be sitting, and undoubtedly, where they will want to sit. What happens next is pure brilliance. They will offer daddy’s box seats for an even swap of your regular seats-and feel like they are getting the better end of the deal—but you must, again, act like you have no idea what is going on.
Step 5. Enjoy hurling and football league; where no pretending is needed, you will have no idea what is going on.
Football League Basics—
As I said, it is somewhat of a cross between Australian rules football and football (soccer). The object of the game is score more points than your opponent. Points are scored by kicking a ball throw uprights (American football uprights) for one point, or kicking it into a goal (world football/American soccer) positioned below the uprights guarded by a goal-keep for 3 points.
Teams try to advance the ball down the field getting the best possible shot at the uprights or the goal. A player can only advance the 10 meters at a time. After 10 meters the ball must either be bounced off the ground, bump passed to a teammate, or kicked. Skilled players will choose to advance the ball on their own further than 10 meters by bouncing the ball to themselves (dribbling it) or kicking it to themselves. Why not just dribble it every 10 meters as this seams much simpler? I am pretty sure players can not dribble the ball in succession; each time they choose to dribble it must be interchanged with a kick to themselves.
Each side plays 15 players at a time, 2 halves lasting 35 minutes a piece. The game is played with a standard round soccer ball. That’s it in a nutshell. Oh yeah, the entire game opposing sides are absolutely whaling on and bludgeoning each other. It’s a real blood bath.
Hurling: Essentially a cross between the above mentioned sport, la-cross, and field hockey. Hope this is helpful. Cheers! Martois.
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Marty- owning high school girls since 1992.
OK... So I am entering this century, and adding a "blog" (all these new websites: blogger, myspace, friendster etc... it's all making me feel old, and I am supposed to be the younger sister!). Anyhow... it sounds like you have finally beat me in sky-box stories... that must've been awesome! I probably will not be in touch until your graduation in May... as I am getting ready to leave for FIJI (woo-hoo!) in the next day... but have a great time for the rest of your time there. Cannot wait to see your pictures and I'm looking forward to seeing you in a few weeks!
PS- Sissy- I am so sorry your site went down! That totally sucks...
so if you are still thinking of a destination wedding check out marco.. according to george and estie the marriot has beautiful weddings on the beach and sometimes they do two a day..it really is like paradise down here..to bad I have to return to cold Sioux City..when dad got home last night the garage door spring broke and the thermostat battery had given out so the house was very cold..nice welcome back to reality! love ya sc mum
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