1st Game

Well on March 30 the Guard played their first home game of the season. I was at the Crown at 10:00am to set up for the game. I did several things before the game started. The first thing that I did was move tables around in the North Concourse because the Crown employees did do as they were asked. I had to move probably 15 tables, we had to set up the Merchandise table, and all of the other tables for organizations and groups that paid to have a table in the Concourse. After that it was time to hang all of the signage. It was only me and one other person doing all of this work. First wee had to go down to offices on the Arena floor level and get all of the signage to bring up to the Concourse level. There must have been about 40 signs to carry up. Once we got all of the signs up to the concourse we had to now hang them. That did not take very long but it was just very tedious work. Once those signs were hung, now I had to help put up the "dasher broads" which are the signs that are along the boards of the field. That was pretty hard because the work had to be done fast, but it was very hard to do. Luckily there was a professional there that was doing the work, I was just helping. Once all of that was done, I had to go back to offices and bring up all of the merchandise to be sold during the game. Good thing for us there was a hand cart that we were able to use. That job only took about a half hour. By now people were beginning to enter the Crown for the game. My next job was to find the person in charge of stats. I found him very easily. We got the program up and running, The game was getting ready to start. The Guard had a man there doing stats so i was just his spotter. What that is, is I call out what is going on during the game, it makes it easier for him so he doesn't have to keep looking up and down. The game started very smoothly for me but about half way through the 2nd quarter the other team kicked a kick off through the uprights, apparently it is worth 1 point. and we had no idea how to do that on the computer. we figured it out and the game continued to run smooth. After the game was over I had more to do, remember all of the signs that I hung before the game, I had to take down because the FireAntz had a game the following day. So that took about another hour. So when all was said and done I was there for 9hrs. That brings me up to 116 hrs. I learned that setting up to the games is a lot more hectic that actually running the game. I also learned that you can not rely on others to get things done. Overall I had a great time working my first professional indoor football game.