Huge crowd witnesses NBA All Star Game

When you think about it, the game of basketball is played on a relatively small rectangular patch of wood. Football fields, on the other hand, are a hundred yards long, and baseball yards are big and spacious as well, so these sports require a good sized stadium, and many fans who are at the game are simply not going to be able to get that close to the action. Basketball is traditionally played in a gymnasium at the high school and college levels, and in the pros, it is played in an arena that may seat around 17,000 people. If you are in the “nosebleed” section of a pro hoops arena, you aren’t going to see the details of Lebron’s tattoos, but you will be able to figure out what is going on for the most part.

It is kind of humorous to report on the 2010 NBA All-Star Game that was played at the new Cowboys Stadium in Arlington this past Sunday evening. It seems to be a matter of great importance that everything be really big in Texas…why, I don’t rightly know. But bigger must be better, right? Anyway, there were 108,713 people at the basketball game that they played there the other night. Somehow I don’t find this to be a spectacular display of just how superior Jerry Jones is to the rest of the world. I just think it is a foolish and transparent manifestation of the same type of greed, hubris, and ego that has turned America into one great big corporate commercial. Wouldn’t it be great to get a one of those last ten or twenty thousand tickets, pay for parking, pay $10 for a beer, and watch a bunch of ants moving around somewhere far in the distance? And by the way, if it mattered at all, the East beat the West 141-139.