Game 4 Week

This week at the Force office, I went in Tuesday and Friday for a total of 10 hrs and then on Saturday I worked at the crown for 14 hours. During Tuesday’s office hours I spent a great majority of my time cutting out more voucher game tickets for coaches, players, staff, and coupon vouchers for a restaurant for players to use. This week I believe I cut out and signed close the 1000 cards. Once I was done cutting and signing voucher tickets I spent the last hour in the office rolling and rubber banding t-shirts to be shot out of the t-shirt gun and for our cheerleaders to throw into the crowd. On Friday, my day was a little more exciting then Tuesday. My first task was to ride along with Alex to get our game day fire extinguishers re-filled for Saturday’s game. The fire extinguishers are sprayed as each player and coach is introduced to the field. After we got back from filling up the fire extinguishers, Alex had me re-load the stat software on to a new computer for game day and become familiar with how the software worked. Once I was comfortable entering in fake scenarios that might happen in a real game, I helped Alex and Derrick come up with possible game day events to be put on during media timeouts, team timeouts, one minute warnings, and half time. Since this week’s game was military appreciation night, I suggested to use the relay game again at half time because who would not want to see four grown men carrying each other to win a prize. After the game script was written I rolled a few more t-shirts before I was done for the day. On Saturday, I arrived at the crown at 9am and was not done working till 11pm. Before kickoff which was at 7:05 pm, today was the youth league game which the Force set up several weeks ago. My duty from 9am to 3pm was working the game clock, play clock, and scoreboard for all the youth games. As I was learning how to control everything at once it took some time getting used to when to start and stop both the game clock and play clock. Several times I could hear the parents yelling as to why the game clock was or was not stopped. One time I even had a 14 year old player come running yelling at me “stop the clock we called a god damn timeout.” I did not stop the clock right away because the official did not give the signal yet and I was to follow their signals and not players or coaches. Once the youth league games were finished the other interns and I were provided a free lunch at The Dog House right down the road from the crown. Two hours before game time we spent it hanging rail signs and putting all the intermission event equipment in the tunnel. My duty for the first half of the game was helping another intern Bill track stats. The second half of the game I worked in the tunnel which consisted of bringing contestants down to the tunnel and helping set and break down the events as they went on. When the game was over, the interns and I put away the event equipment away and were free to leave.