New piece of memorabilia and maybe my new favorite.
Goot
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So there's a bit of a back story to this one...
About a month before my 3rd birthday my Dad took me to what was my very first Professional Sporting event. It was the Tampa Bay Lightning, who were only in their 2nd season, against the Buffalo Sabres with the game being played in Orlando. Obviously I was so little that I don't remember the game at all, but my dad has always brought it up as the game that started my passion for sports and jokes that is when he "created a monster". Anyways, I have always kept the program from this game and over the years it had been pretty beat up but it held some sentimental value to me. Well as some of you may already know I am a Lightning season ticket holder now and a couple times a year they bring in old players and have free autograph signings during one of the intermissions. Well once I found out that Daren Puppa was signing at an upcoming game I quickly thought about what I could have him sign. I was just planning on having him sign a puck until I remembered that he was on the cover of that program from the first game I ever went to. I had my parents find the old program and ship it over to me just in time for the game. I got it signed and my Dad told me he'd try and remember to go get it framed in the near future.
Well, my 21st birthday was just a couple months ago and my parents told me they had something special getting taken care of. It was a bit delayed so it arrived while I was over in Tampa, but it was here waiting for me when I came back home just a week ago.
And here it is....
When I first opened it I saw what was framed and I thought it was pretty cool....but then I saw the ticket at the bottom. My Dad had saved that ticket ALL those years and had it framed with it! The other ticket is tucked away in the back of the frame in safe keeping. The sentimental value of this program has skyrocketed after seeing it framed with the ticket. It's a really cool piece but the true value for me is in what it represents, and that's the Father-Son relationship that we've formed over the years by going to all of the different sporting events, and now I have a reminder of the very first one.
About a month before my 3rd birthday my Dad took me to what was my very first Professional Sporting event. It was the Tampa Bay Lightning, who were only in their 2nd season, against the Buffalo Sabres with the game being played in Orlando. Obviously I was so little that I don't remember the game at all, but my dad has always brought it up as the game that started my passion for sports and jokes that is when he "created a monster". Anyways, I have always kept the program from this game and over the years it had been pretty beat up but it held some sentimental value to me. Well as some of you may already know I am a Lightning season ticket holder now and a couple times a year they bring in old players and have free autograph signings during one of the intermissions. Well once I found out that Daren Puppa was signing at an upcoming game I quickly thought about what I could have him sign. I was just planning on having him sign a puck until I remembered that he was on the cover of that program from the first game I ever went to. I had my parents find the old program and ship it over to me just in time for the game. I got it signed and my Dad told me he'd try and remember to go get it framed in the near future.
Well, my 21st birthday was just a couple months ago and my parents told me they had something special getting taken care of. It was a bit delayed so it arrived while I was over in Tampa, but it was here waiting for me when I came back home just a week ago.
And here it is....
When I first opened it I saw what was framed and I thought it was pretty cool....but then I saw the ticket at the bottom. My Dad had saved that ticket ALL those years and had it framed with it! The other ticket is tucked away in the back of the frame in safe keeping. The sentimental value of this program has skyrocketed after seeing it framed with the ticket. It's a really cool piece but the true value for me is in what it represents, and that's the Father-Son relationship that we've formed over the years by going to all of the different sporting events, and now I have a reminder of the very first one.
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I too was 3 in 1994 ... oh wait ... the key got stuck ... I was 36 then! LOL
Doug
Liquidating my collection for the 3rd and final time. Time for others to enjoy what I have enjoyed over the last several decades. Money could be put to better use.
Good to see you around here again BTW
That is Awesome!!!!!
<< <i>Congrats, sentimental value memorabila sometimes are the nicest pieces. >>
+100%
I forgot to add that I looked up the game I went to. The Lightning won 4-0 so Puppa got the shutout! And the opposing goalie was Dominik Hasek! Too bad I wasn't old enough to remember that one...
<< <i>Ironically, he played for the Sabres too prior. Used to yell Poopaaaaa!!! at the Aud in Bflo >>
Went to college in Troy, NY at RPI. He anchored that team. Congrats on such a beautiful piece. By the way, did the Lightning win?
Goot,
That is awesome. I did the same thing that your dad did, I saved the program and ticket from my sons first wild game. This was the game that made him a huge hockey fan. I am going to do the same with our program and ticket that your parents did with yours. I hope my son appreciates it as much as you did.