Harlem Globetrotters

D and I, along with some of our coworkers, had tickets to see the Harlem Globetrotters on Friday night! I was so very excited. I love when nostalgia can be that powerful.

Prior to the game, D, Bench Buddy and I went to D's for drinks and conversation. We busily drank and discussed Bench Buddy's premise that love, hate, and indifference are like an isoceles triangle, with love and hate being the bottom and very close together and therefore readily and often interchangeable, and indifference being very far away and therefore harder to achieve. Ah, Bench Buddy. And then we sang Poison by Bel Biv Devoe.

The conversation and drinks made us late for the game, which started at 8:00. We got to Madison Square Garden at around 8:30. Once we found our way inside, which was far more difficult than we'd anticipated, we were baffled by the amount of people who were in the hallways. We deduced that it was halftime, and I felt stupid for having thought that a Harlem Globetrotters game would be as long as an NBA game. I said "I guess it makes sense that the halves would only be 20 minutes, but man, that's disappointing."

We met our other coworkers at the seats and they kept being like "Man, you guys are so late!"

I said "How were we supposed to know that the half would only be 20 minutes? We're not that late! Did we miss the hiding-the-ball trick?"

After like five minutes of discussion regarding our being late, it was revealed that the game started at 7:00. Oops.

Nevertheless, it was fun. There was much more, well, hip hop than I expected. Also, during the half, horrid pop music was playing and little kids were going nuts singing along with Ashlee Simpson. I fear for the youth. The game was fun - lots of dancing, antics, banter, and much less basketball than I remembered.

Here is some dancing:



It was fun.

Some questions, though:

1. Who are the Harlem Globetrotters? Like did they play basketball in college and almost made it into the NBA?
2. Do the Harlem Globetrotters score easily with chicks? Like does that work if you're in a bar and someone asks what you do - do girls think its hot if you're a Globetrotter? Or do people think its lame?
3. Do they make Nationals t-shirts? If they do, we are going to buy them and cheer for the Nationals next time.
4. Bench Buddy claims that the Nationals won once and only once - was this on purpose or did the Globetrotters have a bad night and the Nationals accidentally won?

Things to ponder before bringing future children to a Globetrotters game.