Unnoticeabull

I haven't had a chance to watch SportsCenter or anything, but according to the InterWeb, the big story this morning is that Antonio Davis went into the stands at the Bulls/Knicks game last night when he thought his wife was being threatened. What is interesting is that if this is the biggest sports story of the year, which it obviously shouldn't be, then I, and the rest of section 314 at the United Center, somehow missed out on it completely.

I was at the game, and the incident apparently occurred with only a minute left in OT. A few minutes earlier, there was a bit of a fight and a double ejection, which everyone saw. The Davis incident didn't cause much more than a ripple in the opposing crowd, it was so low key that the crowd never had any chance to jeer or boo, and I didn't even hear the announcement that he was ejected. Perhaps all of this is due to the fact that I was approximately 4,348 feet away from the scene, and extremely lightheaded due to the high altitude. Also, since our seats were roughly in the corner of the court, and on the aisle, every time some idiot kid decided to walk down the stairs and help himself to eight dollar nachos my view was completely cut off. The experience was surreal in the sense that until the waning moments of the 4th quarter and OT, the crowd was virtually silent during gameplay, and only made noise during the between-period breaks and time-out filling moments such as the Duncan Donuts Race, the 'hilarious' antics of Benny the Bull, the dudes armed with T-shirt bazookas, and the delightfully whorish choreography of the 'Love-a-bulls' dancers. Since I generally hate even going to people's houses to watch games on TV because half the people there usually spend more time exchanging recipes for spinach dip than comparing assist to turnover ratio (or explaining why Peyton Manning sucks or whatever), the experience of sitting, trying to focus, with 20,000 distracted people was at times painful. Regardless, the game was sloppy but good, Ben Gordon (who's on my underachieving fantasy basketball team) scored 32 including the buzzer-beater to win it.

I'll be back in a week, amigos!