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What is the farthest you have traveled to attend a sporting event?
Asked at Dillons, 1740 Mass. on July 14, 2011
“Just a St. Louis Cardinals game in St. Louis from Topeka.”
“Oh, easy. Twelve-hundred miles. Oakland Raiders. From Lawrence to Oakland. Once a year I make that drive.”
“The only sporting event I go to is 10 steps out my back door to the ball diamond.”
“I farthest I’ve ever gone is 45 minutes to Kansas City for a Royals game from here.”
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ku_law 1 year, 10 months ago
First. 0 miles.
vertigo 1 year, 10 months ago
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vertigo 1 year, 10 months ago
damn so close!
labmonkey 1 year, 10 months ago
Kiska must be loading up on batteries to throw at opposing fans.
misterlee 1 year, 10 months ago
Chicago for a Royals-White Sox game.
RoeDapple 1 year, 10 months ago
Went over to the neighbor's to help break up a gerbil fight a few days ago. Turns out they were mating. (The gerbils, not the neighbors) They didn't know the difference, being city folks. Stayed for a while, drank a few beers and watched them mate (still the gerbils) while providing color commentary. They were good sports about it.
RoeDapple 1 year, 10 months ago
Went to a bunch of KU football games while the kids went to school there. Not for the football, but for the half time show. Go BAND!! They both played brass, no cymbals.
RoeDapple 1 year, 10 months ago
I did go to a few Chiefs games back in the '70's when a friend was playing for the Steelers. The Steelers were really playing some great ball back then. Don't remember much about the other team.
RoeDapple 1 year, 10 months ago
It's only a couple of miles to the sandbar golf ball shooting range. Getting to be a bit warm out there now but this fall I will be back.
vertigo 1 year, 10 months ago
Wow, calling someone a donkey gets your remark removed.
OTSPolice 1 year, 10 months ago
Actually, you called him an ass. That got your remark removed.
CWGOKU 1 year, 10 months ago
Great name you got there, I like it!
charliejohnson 1 year, 10 months ago
TCU twice to watch the Hawks. Once for BB, once for Foorball. Going to Emporia for State Softball on Friday. Grandaughter plays. Going to be reeeaaallly hot.
schula 1 year, 10 months ago
To St Louis for a Cardinals baseball game
RoeDapple 1 year, 10 months ago
"This could bring my presidency down . . I will not yield on this!"
I think you're right T_O_B. Never played a game of poker in his life.
rockchalker52 1 year, 10 months ago
When my sis & her family lived in Atlanta, my wife & I would drive from here to visit them over the Fourth of July weekend & run in the Peachtree 10k roadrace. More than 50,000 folks participate in it every year. They get some really elite road racers in that thing. All the hotshots were already past the finish line before we made it to the start.
Nowadays, the best I can muster is about 3 miles before I'm pretty well spent - and some of that is at a walk. Sometimes that 3 miles seems a lot longer than the drive to Atlanta.
whats_going_on 1 year, 10 months ago
Hawaii for a KU bball tourney
wmathews 1 year, 10 months ago
I guess I've intentionally traveled to Newark twice to watch Sporting vs. Red Bulls games, but when I studied abroad in Italy we went to a Florence vs. Milan game. That was bananas.
wmathews 1 year, 10 months ago
I didn't really study the broads.
Ron Holzwarth 1 year, 10 months ago
We all knew you couldn't stay away from LJWorld.com, Whitney!
wmathews 1 year, 10 months ago
Oh you know, just crazy soccer fans being crazy soccer fans.
Royals 1 year, 10 months ago
Toronto to see the Royals play the Blue Jays. But I was also visiting my sister in Rochester, NY.
I've also seen the Royals in Seattle, Arlington, TX, Chicago (Wrigley Field vs the Cubs in interleague play) & Minneapolis, MN.
Andini 1 year, 10 months ago
On Saturday, January 31, 1987 I was in Louisville, KY to watch the Jayhawks beat the Cardinals 62-58.
CWGOKU 1 year, 10 months ago
Chicago to see the Cubs play
RoeDapple 1 year, 10 months ago
Is it disrespectful to call chicks broads?
Ron Holzwarth 1 year, 10 months ago
I don't know, RodDapple, but I think you could check by calling a woman a "broad" right in her face and see how she reacts!
LadyJ 1 year, 10 months ago
Like!
FlintlockRifle 1 year, 10 months ago
Spain to a bull fight, old bull won the first round===ugly, once was enough
CWGOKU 1 year, 10 months ago
Hey Andini, didn't you go across the country to that female mud wrestling tournament once?
SEsco10 1 year, 10 months ago
I took my talents to South Beach & Miami to watch KU in the Orange Bowl in 2008
CWGOKU 1 year, 10 months ago
"We've heard enough out of you today. Freaking threader"
Ouch.......... I don't think the French like to be slapped like that
xyz 1 year, 10 months ago
Basketball travels: last December: KU at Berkeley, CA 1980: KU at the Superdome few years ago: Croatian national team vs. Serbian national team at Zagreb, Croatia (first time I've been to a basketball games where the guards carried machine guns)
hitme 1 year, 10 months ago
Sounds like somebody wants to be the Fred Phelps of anti-threading...and you know what we all suspect about Fred...
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 1 year, 10 months ago
I watched a handball game in Zug once, Semi-intentionally.
autie, For penance, 3 hail Whitneys, 2 minutes of self flaggilation.
frankieandlola 1 year, 10 months ago
Hopped the pond to London for Wimbledon
rockchalker52 1 year, 10 months ago
Hold your ground, autie. We may not be les meilleurs amis with the odiferous surrender monkeys, but remembering Bastille Day seems apropos considering these trying times with Cedar Crested Sam. A tip of the ol’ ball cap to all those Pierre’s who wouldn’t put up with that cake eatin’ crap.
I get a kick outa Louie XIV, though, so supremely ridiculous. Sun God my left cheek. Besides that, there’s Cannes, the French Riviera & Bridgette Bardot. And don’t forget the Eiffel Tower & the City of Lights. We’ll always have Paris, autie. We’ll always have Paris.
tuschkahouma 1 year, 10 months ago
we've gone to OKC Thunder games in OKC last two seasons.
kawryan 1 year, 10 months ago
1996 Monaco Grand Prix - almost 10K miles round trip
acornwebworks 1 year, 10 months ago
To Fenway to sit on the Green Monster and watch them raise the 2004 World Series pennant!!
(The 2008 Orange Bowl was great fun, too :-)
LadyJ 1 year, 10 months ago
I went to the Redneck Olympics to watch cuzin Jethro compete in the Bobbing for pigs feet contest. Here he is getting 2nd place http://redneckgames.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/redneck2.jpg
LadyJ 1 year, 10 months ago
Since Granny Ellie, and Uncle Billy have moved in with cuzin Jethro, he had to add a couple of levels to his house http://schlich.com/images/redneck_mansion.jpg
LadyJ 1 year, 10 months ago
Back to sports, here was the horseshoe compitition. http://www.hi-techredneck.com/horseshoe.jpg
sjgreen 1 year, 10 months ago
to New York for a Yankees game -- back in the 1999 when the incredibly handsome Tino Martinez was playing first base
H_Lecter 1 year, 10 months ago
Miami - KU in '88 Orange Bowl.
AnnieinKC 1 year, 10 months ago
The farthest I've gone is to my arm chair.
JNguyen 1 year, 10 months ago
Maimi in 08 for the KU/VT Orange Bowl!
yourworstnightmare 1 year, 10 months ago
25,000 miles to a KU game.
kujayhawk 1 year, 10 months ago
Hawaii, because I was playing in it.
beatrice 1 year, 10 months ago
NYC for a Knicks playoff game back in the '90s. A friend had tickets, so it was the excuse to take a trip to the big, big city. It was a blast.
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