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What do you call a Monster Truck Rally where you're sitting in the 6th row and about 3 seconds into the show, the first two rows in front of you catch fire?
A friggin' AWESOME Monster Truck Rally, that's what.
We were in the Allstate Arena, sitting in the lowest section right above the tunnel where the trucks came out. There were these two small flame throwing tubes on either side of the tunnel with a wide, orange, plastic banner/covering around the tunnel opening coming up to the railing where our section began. The first three rows in our section had been cleared and covered with material that looked like plastic trash bags that were sewn together, making the chairs inaccessible.
Back to the tubes, we didn't even notice they were there in front of us until firecrackers suddenly burst out of them during the national anthem. Then the show began, the trucks came out, the tubes began their huge fire-spewing, part of the banner and the two garbage bag-covered rows in our section to us caught fire, the people sitting closer than we were got the hell outta dodge so the fire could be doused. Amanda and I initially thought the fire would get worse so we got up and moved toward the door, but 10 seconds later the Arena people finally got their act together and the fire was finally put out. Helluva way to start a show!
I went with my college buddy Chris, his gf Danielle, Amanda and a few others yesterday. The price of admission was twice as much as I thought it would be and it looked like the show was originally sold out when we got there, but we still got tickets and it was still worth it to go. We decked ourselves out in white trash attire before we left
It took a while to finally get used to the sound of the trucks, but the show got in full swing once they let the cars out to do their own freestyle thing like go over the jumps, mash up the cars/vans and go around in circles kicking up dirt. That's when the crowd cheered louder than someone hitting a winning grand slam at the world series. They'd be covered with mud and they'd still be going nuts. Lots of neat trucks were there (Bigfoot unfortunately wasn't). Gravedigger, Taz, Devestator, Wild Stallion, some truck with the U.S. Air Force logo on it (I think I saw 'Afterburner' on its side), Rolling Thunder and Donkey Kong, who ended up winning the 'race' part of the show. Motherfucking DONKEY KONG. It even had the little tie he wears in front of the grill!
Then they brought out a dirt bike and like 9 or so ATV's to race around and do some stunts. The dirt bike guy was awesome. He jumped so high, he was about 10 feet away from touching the circular viewer in the center of the arena. To top off the show, they brought out these two rocket powered things that looked like a cross between go-carts and ATV's. They were almost louder than the monster trucks and they were stated to go 300+ miles an hour and had 10-foot flames coming out of the back. It sounded like we were in a wind tunnel. Too bad they couldn't really go anywhere because the arena was too short for them to do it. LAME!!
The Allstate Arena is cool to see concerts and stuff, but I was surprised that they managed to pull off having a monster truck rally there. The trucks did jumps and everything, but even with one truck in the stadium they had such little space to work with. Next time I want to go to Texas or something and go to those huge stadiums that are as big as NASCAR and really see those monster trucks tear it up. Between breaks, the viewer kept showing the trucks going over bigger jumps, rolling over a lot and dinging up their hardware. It even showed Gravedigger (I guess that's the current cash cow of the enterprise) landing a vertical jump so badly that the top of the truck got sheared off. Someday, I guess.
Chris and I are also thinking about going to a bull riding thing they're supposed to be having at the Arena in April. If any of you guys are interested, I'd be more than happy to have you come along too. This dressing up and acting obnoxious thing is great to do every once in a while, especially if you've had a fairly average couple of weeks without too much excitement.
J
A friggin' AWESOME Monster Truck Rally, that's what.
We were in the Allstate Arena, sitting in the lowest section right above the tunnel where the trucks came out. There were these two small flame throwing tubes on either side of the tunnel with a wide, orange, plastic banner/covering around the tunnel opening coming up to the railing where our section began. The first three rows in our section had been cleared and covered with material that looked like plastic trash bags that were sewn together, making the chairs inaccessible.
Back to the tubes, we didn't even notice they were there in front of us until firecrackers suddenly burst out of them during the national anthem. Then the show began, the trucks came out, the tubes began their huge fire-spewing, part of the banner and the two garbage bag-covered rows in our section to us caught fire, the people sitting closer than we were got the hell outta dodge so the fire could be doused. Amanda and I initially thought the fire would get worse so we got up and moved toward the door, but 10 seconds later the Arena people finally got their act together and the fire was finally put out. Helluva way to start a show!
I went with my college buddy Chris, his gf Danielle, Amanda and a few others yesterday. The price of admission was twice as much as I thought it would be and it looked like the show was originally sold out when we got there, but we still got tickets and it was still worth it to go. We decked ourselves out in white trash attire before we left
It took a while to finally get used to the sound of the trucks, but the show got in full swing once they let the cars out to do their own freestyle thing like go over the jumps, mash up the cars/vans and go around in circles kicking up dirt. That's when the crowd cheered louder than someone hitting a winning grand slam at the world series. They'd be covered with mud and they'd still be going nuts. Lots of neat trucks were there (Bigfoot unfortunately wasn't). Gravedigger, Taz, Devestator, Wild Stallion, some truck with the U.S. Air Force logo on it (I think I saw 'Afterburner' on its side), Rolling Thunder and Donkey Kong, who ended up winning the 'race' part of the show. Motherfucking DONKEY KONG. It even had the little tie he wears in front of the grill!
Then they brought out a dirt bike and like 9 or so ATV's to race around and do some stunts. The dirt bike guy was awesome. He jumped so high, he was about 10 feet away from touching the circular viewer in the center of the arena. To top off the show, they brought out these two rocket powered things that looked like a cross between go-carts and ATV's. They were almost louder than the monster trucks and they were stated to go 300+ miles an hour and had 10-foot flames coming out of the back. It sounded like we were in a wind tunnel. Too bad they couldn't really go anywhere because the arena was too short for them to do it. LAME!!
The Allstate Arena is cool to see concerts and stuff, but I was surprised that they managed to pull off having a monster truck rally there. The trucks did jumps and everything, but even with one truck in the stadium they had such little space to work with. Next time I want to go to Texas or something and go to those huge stadiums that are as big as NASCAR and really see those monster trucks tear it up. Between breaks, the viewer kept showing the trucks going over bigger jumps, rolling over a lot and dinging up their hardware. It even showed Gravedigger (I guess that's the current cash cow of the enterprise) landing a vertical jump so badly that the top of the truck got sheared off. Someday, I guess.
Chris and I are also thinking about going to a bull riding thing they're supposed to be having at the Arena in April. If any of you guys are interested, I'd be more than happy to have you come along too. This dressing up and acting obnoxious thing is great to do every once in a while, especially if you've had a fairly average couple of weeks without too much excitement.
J