San Jose Sharks Fan Appreciation 4/11/14

Hello.  I'm exhausted.  I'm watching the Sharks game and just trying to stay awake and I'm not going to make it to the end of the third period I fear. But I thought it was a good opportunity to post my pics from the fan appreciation portion of the last game of last season.

I have to apologize for the quality of the photos.  1) I just learned how to make my photos higher resolution when editing (sad, I know) and 2) if I remember correctly, my camera was not happy at that game.  Not sure why because it usually does okay in the Shark Tank.

I find Brodie Brazil a little annoying, but I love Sharkie.  Too bad the tshirt cannon wasn't pointing the other way.  (I kid!) 

Fun fact about Justin Braun:  His wife (now...then GF) was in the top four (I think) on Gordon Ramsey's Masterchef.  

As Captain, Jumbo addresses the fans. 

 The headless hockey player

(insert bad Jeremy Roenick joke here)

The next three are the guys with the fans who won their jersey.  

Two guys who I've loved for awhile.  Sadly, last season saw their huge talents diminished considerably.  Hopefully a new team and a renewed energy will rejuvenate their careers. 

Boyler

 Marty

Man these pictures are terrible.  haha I apologize to anyone who's stuck with it this far. 

Who's wearing a kilt???

Of all the players, Patrick Marleau stays out there the longest throwing tshirts.  He has quite an arm too!  I saw him get at least one into the upper deck from the ice level.  

 Just look at that form. 

Nothing better than Tomas Hertl's smile!  Is dream!

 Burr and Daddy

 Brauny putting his all into it!  He has pretty good form too!

Wingels throwing the splitter.

Moar Patty!

And we'll finish off with Captain America. #LongHairDontCare 

I recommend any Sharks fan try to attend the last home game each season.  It's fun and really nice to see the guys interact with the fans.  

Till next time.

xoxo

2010 Sharks Teal and White Game September 21

Thanks to a couple of nice posters at HF Boards, Adie and I decided to "sneak" into the Teal and White game (TWG). 

The TWG is the Sharks annual preseason welcome for season ticket holders.  The event is free with your ticket holder id and there are autograph tables set up for all the players followed by a scrimmage.  Needless to say, we are not season ticket holders. 

One poster emailed me the "save the date" flyer to use as a season ticket holder invitation and another poster pm'd me his phone number in case the "invitation" didn't fly. See?  There are still awesome people in the world.  Otherwise, I might not have made the drive to San Jose with no guarantee of getting in the doors.  We did have a backup plan, which was to backtrack to Oakland since the A's were in town. 

But, with just a little stress, we got in!  Yay!  First thing we did was note that all of the lines to the autograph tables were already hella long.  No thank you.  The sucky thing (for me) was that 3 of the 4 tables were located in the upstairs eateries...so you couldn't just walk thru and see the players and take photos.  You had to actually stand in line if you wanted to gawk.  Again...no thank you.

So, thanks to the setup, here are a ton of pictures from the ONE table that was located directly on the concourse. 

Luckily three of my favorites were at the table,