Small point to make here....
So, Madison Square Garden in NYC actually calls itself the World's Most Famous Arena.
Blah blah blah....I bet more people actually know where Wimbledon is, or Wembley, but whatever.
My actual point of contention with MSG is this. If you're such a great and wonderful arena, then WHY does the basketball floor for college games have the NBA 3-point line painted on it? Would it be that hard to have a separate floor for college games? It's freakin' New York, where tickets are all a hundred bucks each, anyway.
The Big East tourney is coming next week, and I'm sure, there'll be white and blue lines separately painted. IT LOOKS STUPID, and makes the college game look secondary and unimportant.
The Futurama reference in the future to "Madison Cube Garden" is very inspired!
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LOL at the Futurama reference...
I went to a Bulls/Knicks game at MSG once with a client. I wasn't impressed, I like the United Center better. My grandpa once told me that Boston Garden was magical. I wonder how that compares with the..what is it now...Fleet Center?
As it happens, my days in Boston exactly coincided with the transition between the two.
The Fleet Center cannot compare in any way with the old Garden. It feels like the court is a zillion miles away, and it doesn't resonate the way the Garden did.
I never saw a game at Chicago Stadium. I wish I had, for comparison's sake. Lots of people say similar things about Chicago Stadium/United Center as they do about Garden/Fleet Center. But about Chicago Stadium you also hear comments along the line, "That dump was a mangy old barn."
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