Saturday non-marathon plans?  Colorado Mammoth vs San Diego Seals.

Black Friday (Nov 2018) promo, ticket price $3.03 (keeping with the month’s 3-0-3 theme).  For only $3, who wouldn’t want to see your first Lacrosse match?

MY version:  Fast-paced mix of soccer & hockey.  Music blared & the game moved crazy quick.  60 minutes total, four 15-minute quarters.  Up ‘n down the field; a baseball-sized object tossed player-to-player via hand-held sticks w/ nets.

If you don’t pass [the lacrosse ball] quick enough, expect to be tackled/checked or high-stick’d by the opposing Team.  Want the official rules?  No idea.  Google 🙂

Pepsi Center, fan FILLED.  More attendance than an MLS game (go Rapids), even  rivaled numbers watching our playoff-bound Denver Nuggets.

Why?  The game is crazy FUN – and the pace FAST.  Baseball execs, take a second look.  LOVE LOVED the physicality of lacrosse.  Cool factor HIGH.  Fans skew young & bring a hockey anger.  Even the Mammoth cheerleaders outshined the NBA Nuggets squad.

Tonite.  Game of two very different halves – all San Diego, all Colorado.  Ultimately, Seals held for the W, local Mammoth denied.

Would I go back?  Absolutely!  Go Mammoth!

Colorado Mammoth

Mammoth Draw Crowd of 15,951 on Colorado Night

 

Colorado drew a Mammoth of a crowd, 15,951 fans, to Pepsi Center on Saturday night for their annual Colorado game. To celebrate the Centennial State, the Mammoth debuted their new Colorado-themed jerseys and brought in local band, Raising Cain, to serenade raucous fans to the sounds of Colorado.

 

The Mammoth dropped Saturday’s decision to the San Diego Seals 13-10.

 

By 12:08 in the third quarter, Mammoth were down 10-5, but then they surged. A three-goal run featuring Eli McLaughlin, Ryan Lee and Jeff Wittig brought Colorado within two tallies, 10-8, early in the fourth quarter. Though Colorado’s uptick in energy remained through the end of the game, the Mammoth could not complete their comeback, as back-and-forth action favored the Seals…