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- Jun 8, 2007
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My first game at the Joe was in 1986 with my grandparents, so I guess since then. My parents weren’t sports fans, but my grandparents were big Wings and Tigers fans, so lots of games with them at JLA and Tiger Stadium as a kid.
My grandpa was a bricklayer for Darin and Armstrong in Detroit, and they had a suite at JLA. I recall a few times as a little kid my grandpa getting access to the suite and getting to go. One time, when I was a very little kid, we got on the elevator to go up to the suite, and a couple Red Wings healthy scratches that night got on with us (back when the healthy scratches actually did watch games from the press box lol). Wish I could remember who they were, this was mid/late 80s. Anyway, my grandpa was very tall. And bald. He picked me up in the elevator and, allegedly, I exclaimed, “grandpa, you don’t have any hair!” Guess I hadn’t noticed until then. The two players found that pretty hilarious. I think I managed to embarrass my grandpa a little bit, which would have seemed impossible to me at the time, he was handsome and built like an Abrams tank. That might have been the last time I went up to the suite
Edit: Oh yeah, my gramps woulda turned 94 today, which is why I was thinking of him and shared that story, ha.
My grandpa was a bricklayer for Darin and Armstrong in Detroit, and they had a suite at JLA. I recall a few times as a little kid my grandpa getting access to the suite and getting to go. One time, when I was a very little kid, we got on the elevator to go up to the suite, and a couple Red Wings healthy scratches that night got on with us (back when the healthy scratches actually did watch games from the press box lol). Wish I could remember who they were, this was mid/late 80s. Anyway, my grandpa was very tall. And bald. He picked me up in the elevator and, allegedly, I exclaimed, “grandpa, you don’t have any hair!” Guess I hadn’t noticed until then. The two players found that pretty hilarious. I think I managed to embarrass my grandpa a little bit, which would have seemed impossible to me at the time, he was handsome and built like an Abrams tank. That might have been the last time I went up to the suite
Edit: Oh yeah, my gramps woulda turned 94 today, which is why I was thinking of him and shared that story, ha.
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