@Ed: I wish I had as good a memory as you for my non-Sox games. In fact, I wish mine was better for my Sox game. Only thing I didn’t add was I am pretty sure they won. Now, I know I got a program from the game, and often did for B’s and C’s games, but I have no idea whatever happened to them. I must have chucked them at some point. Idiot.

The same feeling as when I would walk up the long gray concrete ramp up to the garden and you could feel the rush of cold air trying to keep the ice inside the old barn frozen. Gives me chills…..well done.

First Red Sox game was when I was in 8th grade. We had just secured cable and as part of the big push in the nighborhood, the cable company was giving away free pairs of Red Sox tix. So my Dad and I headed in for the game (against Kansas City). Don’t ask me who won or lost. I was drunk on the vastness of the field and the stadium (seems so much smaller and more intimate now).

First Celtics game was in ‘84. Again, I don’t remember who they played – only that it was a Sunday afternoon just after Romancing the Stone opened. I only remember that becuase my buddy and neighbor, Kyle Connelly, had just seen the movie the day before and recounted the entire plot on the way in. He and I were guests of my Dad and his Dad. I do know the Celts won (which given the time period was probably assumed).

First Bruins game was waaaaayyyyy later. Not counting a Black and Gold game at UMASS in the early 90’s – it was one of our GNO’s. It was in 2000, just after Bush took office. This is the infamous night where Mook was railing on and on about Bush from the game to the streets to the bars. Little did we know then how right he was.

First Pats game also came post-college. It was with Timm Haskins against Miami. That would have been ‘95 – shortly after we moved to Mansfield. I went to several others under his season tix (at the old stadium). My first game at Gillette was using my uncle’s tix (that whole group of us that went on the day my car slowly died on the way home – like something out of a movie where the systems on a starship gradually fail). That same year also found Andi and I up close and personal for the final game of the season against Miami. Pats pulled out a last minute win and needed Green Bay to beat the Jets in the 4:00 o’clock game (to advance to the playoffs). For one-half, all of New England were cheeseheads.

For one-half only.