This reminds me of a trip I took with four women friends north of Duluth in 2015. The trip had been long-planned before the Lynx made the playoffs. We didn’t have a TV in our cabin so went to a very small bar between Grand Marais and Tofte. Two TVs, both playing broadcasts of the NHL preseason hype (the Wild began their season that week). Bar was pretty crowded but I asked the bartender if we could watch the Lynx in game two. He was a bit hesitant but did put the game on for us. Several of the men grumbled about women’s sports for a while. Soon, Simone, Rebekah, Maya, Lindsay, and Sylvia had them practically mesmerized. We had such fun that night and we hoped that wasn’t the last of women’s sports in that bar.
It's always fun when you can go into a place and get the locals to cheer for whoever you are cheering for. I've had that with home state Olympians or my college when I was just somewhere far away watching and people around me got into it, too. In Madison, a couple friends and I hd a whole bar cheering for Drake against Butler once upon a time. It's the greatest. It's why watching out in public somewhere is so fun, as opposed to watching at home. Nothing better than high-fiving strangers.
This reminds me of a trip I took with four women friends north of Duluth in 2015. The trip had been long-planned before the Lynx made the playoffs. We didn’t have a TV in our cabin so went to a very small bar between Grand Marais and Tofte. Two TVs, both playing broadcasts of the NHL preseason hype (the Wild began their season that week). Bar was pretty crowded but I asked the bartender if we could watch the Lynx in game two. He was a bit hesitant but did put the game on for us. Several of the men grumbled about women’s sports for a while. Soon, Simone, Rebekah, Maya, Lindsay, and Sylvia had them practically mesmerized. We had such fun that night and we hoped that wasn’t the last of women’s sports in that bar.
It's always fun when you can go into a place and get the locals to cheer for whoever you are cheering for. I've had that with home state Olympians or my college when I was just somewhere far away watching and people around me got into it, too. In Madison, a couple friends and I hd a whole bar cheering for Drake against Butler once upon a time. It's the greatest. It's why watching out in public somewhere is so fun, as opposed to watching at home. Nothing better than high-fiving strangers.