Smashed Windshield Team

by hotplate on Feb 7, 2009 4:13 PM EST

I'm a Wizards season ticket holder. I keep my ticket book in the backpack that I use in lieu of a briefcase. I also drive a 1999 Toyota Corolla that's about to hit 150000 miles on it. Most of the time, I just leave the backpack in the car. Recently, I stopped locking my car when I park it because its old , dirty, and I don't keep anything of value in it. Well, except for my tickets.
Which brings to mind the late Newsweek columnist Pete Axthelm. In addition to his column, Ax served as the prognosticator/tout for the NBC NFL pre-game show in the early '80s hosted, then as now, by Bob Costas. He was NBC's answer to Jimmy the Greek. Axthelm had a strange term for those meaningless late season match ups between 2 dog teams. He called them "Smashed Windshield games" because if you left 2 tickets visible on the dashboard, you were likely to return to your car to find your windshield smashed...and 2 more tickets left on the dash.
Sadly, the Wizards are now a smashed windshield team. And I live in terror of returning to my car one evening and finding even more Wizards tickets.

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Ha!

Nice, sad, story.

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by Kyle Weidie on Feb 8, 2009 1:32 PM EST reply actions

ha ha

cant agree more.. the wizards give season ticket holders so many free tickets on top of their plans and i literally cant find people to go.

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by jackpitt on Feb 9, 2009 12:54 PM EST reply actions

Me neither -

I was actually doing well at the beginning of the season with selling the tickets I couldn’t use because people still had hope back then. Now – I can’t give seem to give them away. I keep giving them to one friend who still hasn’t given up on the team.

by ooba on Feb 9, 2009 1:25 PM EST up reply actions