Tonight was the Colorado Mammoth game. And wow is arena lacrosse a lot of fun to watch! There were more Mammoth fans in the stadium than there were Avs fans last week! It was crazy! Lot’s and lots of cowbell too! Having never been to or watched a lacrosse game, I never knew just how violent that sport is! Little padding (excluding the goalies of course), projectile balls, and sticks to beat one another with. The players would actually just whack each other while running by. Smacks against the back, legs, head, you name it. There were more fights than a hockey game. Only in lacrosse, it’s apparently somewhat acceptable to beat an opponent senseless while they are on the ground until the ref comes to break up the fight. I recall one incident where there was so much swinging of sticks one could have mistaken the game for deforestation. Surprisingly, the refs do not wear helmets.

Mammoth fans are nothing else if not eccentric! I have not been to such a loud and intense game in a long time! Tonight the Mammoth played the Philadelphia Wings, both teams going into tonights game undefeated. Unfortunately for Colorado, that streak ended today in the 4th period, when the Wings took the lead. The final score was 15-13, a much higher scoring game than last week’s hockey game.

Since we had an extra ticket to tonight’s game, Noah brought along his boss’ 10 year old son, Logan. Great kid that had such a fun time at the game! He had been to one Mammoth game before, but didn’t remember much about it. But it didn’t take him long at all to get into the game and jump up with the thousands of other fans each time the home team scored (which by the way looked very challenging since the goalie took up just about the entire goal). The only thing Logan wished he had though was a cowbell of his own.  As much fun as a cowbell would have been, I think it would have been more annoying than anything else. However, I think it’s just about safe to say that the Colorado Mammoth gained two new fans tonight.