You wake up: On the right side of the bed (the opposite being the wrong side not the left). You yawn a brisk morning yawn. Then you stretch your arms high into the air and shout as loud as you can: THE GAME’S TONIGHT!
Your significant other, annoyed by the sudden awakening kicks you rather impressively square in the kidney. You commend their precision (a diversion tactic, of course) then slowly amble your way to the bathroom to insure internal regularity. In your head you muse: “The Plight of the Fan”, but you know it’s all worth it. The game’s tonight and you’ve got good tickets to the Thunder game in Bricktown. Also, while in the bathroom you are sure to hide your significant other’s unmentionables thus making you both even.
It is with unquestionable doubt that fans of any and all sorts come to their home team’s arena, first and foremost, to pay their homage to the sport they love. They sit in their assigned plastic seats, rubbing shoulders with face-painted, sign toting, behemoths (paying homage to the game in their own peculiar way), drink their draft brew and cheer as loud as they can when their team shoots that three pointer right before the buzzer sounds (all the while keeping a close eye on when the next “wave” will be starting again (honestly, you can’t mess that up. It’s your one job of the night)). Then, when the game is over, you, along with countless others, heads home, pleasantly drained from the night’s experience. This is often the case although, less notably, fans go to these stadiums for the stadiums themselves.
Oklahoma City’s own Ford Center complete renovation proves to us continuously as a central point of entertainment showcasing The Oklahoma City Thunder, Yard Dawgz, and Bricktown Redhawks, as well as countless other concerts and events (WWE anyone?). This 586, 000 square-foot stadium holds up to 19,675 people on average and can turn any event into a spectacle of awe. Built on an ancient Indian burial ground (now, now… It’s only a theory but how else could they harness the extreme might of the OKC Thunder without the inclusion of supernatural forces? Exactly), the Ford Center is OKC Bricktown events prime resource for social activities. It is also the “home” and “sanctuary” of Oklahoma City Thunder most gifted team in the NBA. Years of OKC sweat and blood are entwined within the walls of the Ford Center (forty-two to be exact).
This calls to mind some particular similarity to a film that I recently reviewed with one phone-throwing thespian named Russell Crowe called: Gladiator. As we are thoroughly made aware in that film, the concept and tradition of the social stadium has been around for hundreds of years reinforcing the idea that entertainment in any shape or form (even the vicious fights between two barbaric individuals who only fight to survive (I am of course referring to WWE again)) is made to be shown to a large cheering audience. Caesar’s Coliseum was to Rome, as Ford Center is to OKC Bricktown, a facility established to reinforce communal togetherness; a place where friends and strangers alike can come together in common goal and unity.
So the next time you are attending a function at the Ford Center, cheer a little louder, but not for the team, but for the stadium itself and all that it stands for.
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