The Orlando Magic stopped me on my way to work....

The Game Room
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…in one of the trippier driving-to-work incidents of my career.

I was driving into downtown Orlando, minding my own business, jamming to the song from Big Blue on SNES* F-Zero*, when in the distance I saw a bunch of guys in blue waving flags (at the intersection of Colonial/50 and Bumby, for you locals).

“Bit early for a high school carwash,” I thought. Then I looked closer. They were the biggest kids I’d ever seen…

“That looks like Hedo Turkoglu,” I said to myself. “That IS Hedo Turkoglu!”

Then the giant Dwight Howard popped out from behind a van, and I almost ran all of them over, I was so surprised.

Turns out they’re handing out free tickets for tonight’s playoff game. I guess we’ve sucked for so long that nobody is paying attention - so the first playoff series in twelve years that they might actually win isn’t sold out.

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So – you going to the game?

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If only they did that around Detroit!

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Not sure. Our “voluntary” office happy hour is tonight, and the last person that skipped out got shitcanned the next month.

Plus the boss picks up the tab.

I could always go afterward.

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I used to do half-time entertainment for the Magic. My brother still does (Orlando Magic Jamskaters). We used to get a quick half court game in on the floor every once in a while. And all of the pros we met were all pretty nice.

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Bummer. The Magic are the only central Florida pro sports team I haven’t seen play live. I wish I could go to a game. One day I will…

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I guess we’ll see, since I’m off to get drunk on the company dime now :slight_smile:

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The fact that you were listening to music from F-Zero blows my mind. I find that not a lot of people appreciate awesome video game music. Kudos to you sir.

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There are a buncha videogame music appreciation threads over in Cafe Society.

And thanks!