Pyro @ the NBA
So I'm watching the Pistons-Pacers game last night (all the Pacers need to do to win tomorrow is shoot a measly 35%, jeebus...), and during the player intros, I was floored - no, not like that new Taco Bell soft taco thingy on the commercials. Anybody who's ever watched a sporting event - collegiate, professional, even some big-time high school games - knows that the visiting team is introduced first and in a lackluster way before the home team is introduced to much fanfare. What got me was the extent to which the fanfare extended at Detroit's Palace of Auburn Hills.After the Pacers' starters were announced and properly booed by the hometown fans (we do the same to our opponents), the arena went dark, as expected. Here's where it gets a little more hardcore - the Pistons PR team had put together a little video a couple minutes long with highlights and other video, and the whole deal was narrated by Rasheed and Ben Wallace (no relation, I think). After the video, which was well-made and all that, fire launchers mounted atop the backboards were activated, shooting pyrotechnic glory a good 30 feet above the backboards. Only after all of this was the Pistons' starting five announced. I had never seen such a show just for player introductions, save for the WWE and maybe the Super Bowl.
Maybe it's because I haven't been paying close attention to the player intros lately, or maybe it's because this is the Playoffs. Regardless, it was entertaining television, if only because I personally wasn't expecting it.
Go Pacers.
posted by The AMT @ 3:15 PM
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