WNBA

On my way to the game tonight I was a appropriately apprehensive. I've never been to a women's professional basketball game before, and I frankly wasn't sure if I was really up for it. My basketball glory days are a thing of the past thanks to my arts high school and growth spurt slump. No 5'8" white girl is going to make it onto that court and I've seen the proof.

You may be wondering how I ended up at this game and the truth is a co-worker won 2 tickets to the New York Liberty and since Robyn and I jump at the chance to take anything that is free (yes I took home the complimentary Liberty bag and noise makers, and no I did not need them) we convinced him that they would best be used on us. As in, we would actually go to the game. He was a bit bummed, after all, when he found out that his grand prize at our vendor's day was tickets to a women's basketball game.

Robyn and I questioned what we were doing before we got there. What is a WNBA crowd like? Would there be anybody there besides us? Does anybody care about women's basketball? What sports do we watch that women play? Do the Knicks think they're way more awesome than the Liberty? Are they right? Do we have good seats?

Oh yea, we had good seats. We were also pleasantly surprised to find out that people DO go to see women's basketball. Why did we ever doubt it? Sure it was largely a women's based crowd and at first we felt like we were at a high school basketball game, but it just got better and better. The halftime show was outstanding and whenever they took a time out these old lady dancers would come out and dance to a popular song (think Lady Gaga). It was hilarious! They were into it, we were into it and everybody was having a great time. The mascot was, in fact, one of the best parts of the evenings. That dog could dance! though I'm not sure why their mascot is a dogI was also proud to recognize my favorite play from middle school- the wall. I also realized that it is much more effective when people are moving at fast speeds. My apologies to middle-school Isabelle who learned this all too late.

You may be my last WNBA game... but thank you NY Liberty for showing me that women's basketball is pretty great (and people do show up).