Rockets Game Skit
I was in a skit during halftime of the San Antonio Spurs vs. Houston Rockets game this past weekend. I hope it’s not ruining too many Santa-esque beliefs out there to say that the skit was staged. The skit was a dance competition where the winner received an autographed team basketball. My role was to play the hated Spurs fan with inferior dance moves (think: Carlton off of Fresh Prince). I definitely had the easiest part of the four of us. It’s not hard to dance like an idiot and incite boos from 18,000 fans when you’re wearing the away team’s jersey! This isn’t the first skit I’ve done at a Rockets game. The other one also involved wearing the road team’s jersey and getting booed. It’s actually sort of an awesome feeling being booed by that many people. I mean, it would obviously suck if I was doing something where I didn’t want them to boo, but when the whole objective is for them to boo, it’s pretty sweet and easy to get into it. All four of us did a perfect job in terms of getting the desired crowd response. A few Rockets personnel said they thought it was the best halftime skit they’ve had this season. Sweet!
By the way, Nat Arem posted an article by Bill Simmons called A Fan-Friendly Solution to Fix the NBA on Facebook. It’s an absolute must-read for any serious fan of the NBA. His Entertaining as Hell tournament idea is brilliant.
One final thing: my friend Paul (the guy in the suit from the skit) thinks he’s the greatest sports-bettor in the world. Maybe he is and maybe he isn’t, but I’ve set out on a mission to find out. I made a bet with Paul for a considerable amount of money that he cannot pick 55 (or more) games correctly out of 100 within a year. All of his picks have to be of the -110 vs. -110 variety. In other words, he can’t just take the moneyline on heavy favorites because of course that wouldn’t be fair. I started a site called Paulie B’s 9 Star Locks to track his 100 picks. The site is nothing special, just a spreadsheet basically, but it’s there for anyone to follow along and bet along with Paul or even against him. Granted, 100 picks isn’t a huge sample size by any means, but should give a vague indication whether or not Paul is a savvy sports-bettor. At the time I write this, if you had bet every game the opposite of what his pick was so far, you’d be up money!
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Nice dancing. Proud moment for me.