Its Over....

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Sunday was my last game working with the Fayetteville Guard. The game itself was very good the Guard lost to the Florence Phantoms by only 1 point. I was at the Crown at 10 in the morning, and did not leave until 8 in the evening. That was a total of 10 hours which completes my internship, it gives my 126 hours. my day started off like the last game, I had to move tables all around again because the Crown employees forgot to do it again. so I moved all of the tables and then I had to go down to Promo-room and get all of the promotions for that game plus all of the merchandise that was going to be sold at the game. It was a little easier this because I had some help. Last game I was on my own. Once we had the Merchandise up to the tables we had to get the signs out, the only reason they were down was because the FireAntz had a game a few nights before. So once the signs were out of the room we had to hang them all up, in no order, we had to make it look good. since I am a professional sign hanger it did not take that long for all of the sign to be hung up. Once that was done i had to hang camouflage tarps up throughout the arena, on rails and over tunnels. and then I had to hang up the main tunnel banner it must be 10x20 feet. That was a challenge. By then it was almost ready for the game to start. so i went to my assigned spot which was at the stats table, I was spotting for the statistician. it was a little bit more difficult because Florence's number were all rolled up under their pads so it was hard to see but I managed to figure it out. It was better game than last because no one kicked the kick off through the up-rights, and we did not have to find out how to put that in the computer. There was some things that I noticed, the man who was doing stats was not prepared, he did not have rosters for both teams. It was not that they did not give them to him, it was that he never went and asked for one. How are you supposed to do stats for a professional sports team and not know what to need for each game. I think that I could have done better personally. When the game was over I was able to leave because the Coliseum was not being used by anyone other than the guard, so we did not have to tear down, the signs were able to stay up and everything could stay out. nothing had to go back. I wish that they played more home games so I could work some more. Since school gets out May 1st and their next home game is not until May 10th. Over all I enjoyed my experience. I am glad that I worked for a minor league team because I was able to experience it all. I was not trapped to only one job. I learned a lot from my internship. Thank you to the entire Guard staff for giving me this opportunity.