It many not seem strange that a team or a coach would have superstitutions about there game days. But when you actually know what they are it seems funny.
The best one that I have come across has to be with volleyball. There is a certain member of the team that always has to have chicken at the pregame meal and there is another that has to have the same meal a Perkins before every game to "ensure a win."
That means that we eat at Perkins for every pregame meal on the road. Normally this isn't too much of a problem because you only play one or two games on the road in a week. But when it comes to regionals three days of matches means three days of eating a Perkins, how fun.
This last trip to the regionals was working out fine eating a Perkins everyday (except for the monety) until the last day when we lost.
As a group of 20 we head in to the resturant a little later than we normally would because this Perkins had done a great job of getting our orders and food to us so we were in and out in about an hour. That is not what would happen on the day of the finals though.
The manger of the resturant decides that since it isn't that busy he is going to give our big group to a brand new waitress on her first day. We didn't realize this until later when he told us, but we knew something was different when she had a hard time taking our orders.
So there we are sitting around talking and the girls are preparing mentally for the game. After about 45 mintues and we still haven't even gotten our salads and muffins we ask the manager what is going on with the food. At this point we have about 40 minutes until we have to be back at the school.
He then tells us "It will be about five more minutes, but I can make up anything to go that you want."
"That's not an option for us, we have to play in about an hour and a half," responded the coach.
That is when the manager started to scramble. It still took about 15 more minutes until we had the start of the order. The head coach and I were the last to get our food and we had about five minutes to eat.
It wouldn't have been so bad at first if all the orders started to come out wrong. People didn't get there dressings or the right combinations of food. At one point they brought a chicken tender sandwich with a baked potato. Well I had order the chicken tenders with a baked potato and mac & cheese and no one had order a chicken tender sandwhich.
Once the food started coming out, a waitress started her shift that had helped us last year. She was the best, and she made sure that she straightened as much out as she could for us.
They also forgot to bring out side dishes for people and then once they did bring them, they kept bring more out. I think that we got about two extra pumpkin muffins and sides of bacon that were brought out that had to be sent back.
Well when I finally got my food, there was just one thing wrong, NO mac and cheese. They had brought out my chicken tenders with a baked potato and mashed potatoes. I thought about asking where my french fries, breakfast potatoes, and hashbrowns were since they obviously thought that I really like potatoes, but I didn't.
The team likes to blame that experience on why we lost the championship match. I still think that someone from Concordia set us up and went and talked to the management before we came in.
Yet, at least teh coaches can have fun with this kind of thing after the matches. When we stopped for food n the way home that night we walked in to McDonalds and the coached asked:
"Where is my pumpkin muffin and side bacon?"
I then added "I'm still waiting on my mac and cheese."
So at least everyone new that it wasn't the end of the world that we lost.
I'm still waiting on the mac and cheese by the way.
Posted by laje0007 at December 1, 2005 9:42 AM