Lakers, Game 7 & The Black Eyed Peas
Last night I attended Game 7 of the NBA Finals at Staples Center and watched the Lakers win, it was INSANE! I was sitting right in front of the suite where Fergie and the rest of the Black Eyed Peas were sitting. Fergie’s husband, the dude from Las Vegas was also with them. It was really interesting to watch the dynamic between them. He is very grounded and laid back, and she was bouncing all over the place chatting with everyone. The fans around were almost more interested in them then they were in the game.
The most interesting thing I noticed about being at the game is how the fans were interacting with each other. Everyone was incredibly friendly and open even before the game started. It was a combination of people being excited to be there plus the feeling of camraderie of rooting for the same team. It made me wonder why people don’t act like this all the time. It’s WAY more fun for everyone involved. It made me think of all the times I see a group of people or even an individual having a ton of fun at a bar. That energy just sucks everyone else in and it’s awesome. Most people are too scared to let loose and get excited, it’s a shame that it takes something as big as a Game 7 to really get people going and feeling connected. The same thing happened after September 11th when patriotism was sky high.
So how does this relate to dating and meeting women? When you are in a crowd you are most likely going to feel one of two ways.
1. If you’re not interacting with anyone you will feel left out, tired and overwhelmed.
2. When you are engaged you will feel revitalized, happy and you’ll have tons of energy.
It comes down to a basic choice. Are you going to let the fear of saying the wrong thing to the stranger next to you stop you from having fun? It doesn’t take much to get people going and having fun. The next time you’re out just go up to a group and say “Let’s hear it for beer!” Chink glasses with everyone and say, “Do you guys know the beer chant? It’s the coolest thing ever… Beer, beer, beer, beer, beer!” It’s really that simple.
Leave a comment and let me know which team you were rooting for.
Cheers,
Robbie Kramer
@Robbie Kramer
For some reason it doesn’t look fine in my laptop running Windows 7 with IE8. Fonts are HUGE and Blue. It looks fine in Firefox though and now that I’m writing this it looks fine in my desktop as well, which is running another version of Windows 7 with IE8 on it.
So basically the lesson is people are so jaded today they need a huge event to leave themselves out?
1. I’m not sure what you mean Einar? Is there something funky with the CSS design? It looks fine on safari and firefox.
2. It’s the first 1, game 7 is big and makes people energized and come out of their shell.
1: WTH happened to your blog’s CSS (design)?
2: Is it thee Big Game 7 that makes the people energized or is the people energized that makes the Game 7 big?
If you take a look at people from the past generation, let’s say 60 years old, they’re much more natural because they’re ten times more used to being connected and interact with other people. Things like Tv and the misuse of Internet bring things to a crawl when it comes to that.