WNBA fans make the long trek
The New York Times briefly profiled a small group of WNBA fans who take their teams “triple-digit driving” seriously.
On Friday, Dr. Shailesh Rajguru, 40, drove with his wife and two daughters to watch the expansion Dream play its first home game at Philips Arena in Atlanta.
The Rajgurus live in Lakeland, Fla., 450 miles away, and planned to stay for Sunday’s game against the Los Angeles Sparks, who have the rookie sensation Candace Parker.
“The Dream is the closest home team we have,” Rajguru, a neurologist, said. “How often do you get a chance to say that you attended the very first game in a franchise’s history?”
The Rajgurus have season tickets to multiple teams and were ecstatic to travel and enjoy women’s basketball, but my favorite line of the story was:
“Besides my wedding and the birth of my kids, one of the greatest things in my life was when my daughters turned 16 because they could share the driving duty to and from Shock games,” said (Royce) Thomas, who owns an oil and gas service company in Traverse City, Mich., and another in Gillette, Wyo. “The experiences we’ve had together are things my daughters and I will talk about 40 years from now.”
With ticket prices as moderately-priced as they are, you can’t make a legitimate argument for missing many games, especially when there are fans such as these.
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