At Saturday’s end-of-season Clyde’s gathering of bloggers and their loyalists, we learned from Blogger Rebecca of A View from the Cheap Seats of her plan to drive up to Hershey on Sunday for the Bears’ game. Likely she was going to pen an account of this visit for her blog anyway, but when we asked if she’d mind serving as a correspondent for us as well (We’ve been out drinking with JP before on a Saturday night — we don’t do road trips the day after that), she enthusiastically said absolutely. What she’s authored today is a detailed narrative of a fabulous culmination to perhaps the Bears’ best weekend of the season: six points capped off by a Sunday night snuffing out of Wilkes Barre-Scranton.
Rebecca wasn’t quite prepared for Hershey’s outpuring of Bears’ love, which clogs the routes into the Giant Center, adorns the bumpers of many Pennsylavania automobiles, and fuels the fashion sense of scores of Bears’ faithful.
“I started spotting people in the cars around us clad entirely in Bears’ gear. I don’t really know why we were so excited by that — maybe it’s just the sight of people who actually love hockey, something so rare in this football-mad area. Walking through the parking lot towards Giant Center we passed cars with Hershey Bears vanity plates and bumper stickers, families dressed in matching Hershey jerseys, kids waving foam bear claws excitedly, all hoping for a Bears victory to cap off their weekend.”
We’ve reported on the breakthrough seasons of Dave Steckel and Chris Bourque here at OFB, but Rebecca puts a fantastic exclamation point on those accounts with her eyewitness one from Sunday. If you’re harboring any notions of a trek northward this spring to see some outstanding American Hockey League action, in the awesome atmosphere of the Giant Center, give Rebecca’s recap a read as further inducement.
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As I mentioned the other day, I was at this game and at Saturday’s game in DC and Sunday was a much better day to be a hockey fan from the region.
People really are crazy about the bears up there.
I was at the Caps game Saturday too and couldn’t agree more - such a contrast. Don’t worry, as soon as the Caps start winning people will be a bit more vocal around here too. I hope. Maybe.
Happy to help out, it was fun! And yes, I was in the AHL’s Cheap Seats as my pictures can attest to. Someday I will have a view from where the other half lives but until then, it’s bird’s eye views for me!
I had pretty good seats (110, six rows from the glass) and the seats also seemed roomier than those at the Phone Booth.
(those things are important to fat guys)
one of my friends from Philly wants to get playoff tickets, since he’s out of luck twice for hockey in Hate City. :>
Heck yeah, we’re bears crazy!!! And the Caps will benefit from our great team in seasons to come!!!
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