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Road Games...

First time poster here. Huge Jazz fan since my uncle showed me the way in 1992.

I live in Michigan, and have gone to see the Jazz/Pistons games. Last year I took my 5 year old, both of us geared p, and went to The Palace. We bought tickets 3 rows behind the Jazz bench for dirt cheap. (I guess Pistons fans have no desire to watch Detroit get thumped by a team from Utah, so there were plenty of good seats available on Stubhub.) About 15 other Jazz fans all had the same idea. Since the Jazz led the whole game, we were pretty loud and having a good (but goodnatured) time. The Pitons fans were OK with us, pretty ambivalent more than anything else. It wasa blast to have a small segment of Jazz fans sitting behind the bench getting rowdy. The team liked it too. The guys kept talking to us, waving, etc.

I'll be there again this year, with my boy. If you're in the Detroit area, I recommend that you join us, one of the highlighs of the year for me and my son.
 
I live in SLC but have been to road games in Denver and Atlanta.

Atlanta's arena is actually awesome. I was there for the 2006 game in Atlanta when the Jazz were down 21 entering the 4th and came back and won. It was sweet. The arena announcer actually had to encourage them to stand up and cheer when the Hawks were absolutely taking it to the Jazz. Still, they barely cheered. You'll like it there. It's a cool place.

Denver's arena is also pretty cool, but it's so spread out and the seats actually muffle a lot of the noise, so it's a lot quieter than I'm sure it could be. Jazz fans in the arena are WAY better than Denver's, but being in Denver's arena makes you realize why people talk about the ESA noise so much... there's no padding at all in the ESA, but most other arenas are nice, comfy, acoustically-sound buildings that muffle a lot of the noise. We won that game, too.. :D

Clearly, the key to Jazz road games is bringing me along.
 
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Went to a game in Denver. Got trash talked by punk fans even after we won. Got on the shuttle back to the hotel and the Nugget fans convinced the driver to stop at the liquor store so they could get booze. Which they then drank in the van while heckling my cousin and I for being from Utah. Stay classy, Denver.

Not something you experience on a typical SLC Friday evening.
 
Marty McFly said:
Went to a game in Denver. Got trash talked by punk fans even after we won. Got on the shuttle back to the hotel and the Nugget fans convinced the driver to stop at the liquor store so they could get booze. Which they then drank in the van while heckling my cousin and I for being from Utah. Stay classy, Denver.

Not something you experience on a typical SLC Friday evening.
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Which game was this?
 
I've gone to most of the games in NY and NJ the last 5 years. I usually get floor seats for the NJ games so I'm often surrounded by corporate types that can care less about the game. That's probably the case for the rest of the arena.

Knick fans can be funny - most of them are shell shocked by how their team have been completely driven into the ground - but once in a while you get some drunk who still thinks it's the Ewing/Starks/Mason era and will start **** with anyone who is rooting for the opposing team.
 
I've seen quite a few Jazz games in Denver living here. Now being poor and with my tolerance of opposing fans and drunks skyrocketing down, I really don't go anymore. Plus back in the day when the Nugs were god awful you could get tickets for really cheap. I remember getting tickets a row from courtside for $60 then. Of course, the Jazz lost the game. Heh, even when the Nugs were awful Utah would find a way to lose a game in Denver almost every season.
 
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