August 12, 2008

A Story from a Stampede Fan:

“I was at a Stampede game at the Idaho Center during the 2003 season. I went into the men’s room and there was a guy in there pouring beer into a water bottle. It was weird, just looked like he had bought a large beer but wanted to hide the fact that he was drinking. So he filled his blue water bottle and went back into the arena. Pretty big guy, dark hair, levis. Anyway, later when I was watching the game I noticed the same guy — and he was sitting at the end of the bench of the visiting team! And he actually was getting up off the bench at timeouts and was part of the huddle. Then I figured out that he was actually a player on the team! He was just injured or whatever and wasn’t playing that night.”

That was when we were in the CBA. I am surprised he bothered with the water bottle.