Football vs Hockey

  This past Friday, my friends and I decided to game hop. We went from the football game against UNH to the hockey game against Farmingdale State all in one night. The first game that we went to was the football game. There were a lot of people there and the energy was pretty good. Everyone was standing the entire time and they were all completely into the game. My friends and I left at half time in order to make it to the net game, but when we left, we were winning 13 to 7. In the end, the team lost the game.
  We rushed to the shuttle that was taking us to the hockey game and we headed over to the game. When we got there, it was completely different. We were all up close to the team and everyone did chants together instead of doing three different ones at once. No this wasn't my first hockey game, but it was the first one that I actually got into. I was screaming along with everyone else and I learned a lot about hockey. They game was really close. In the first period, we scored two points. Then in the second period the other team caught up to us and scored one more. The score was two to three and everything got a lot more intense. In the third period, we scored and tied the game, that is until the other teamed scored again. Thankfully we caught back up, after being robbed by the refs when they took away one of our points. The game went into a five minute overtime and no one scored. With the game still tied, we went into shoot outs. Now I'm not sure how it exactly works, but they went back and forth with one person from each team trying to score on the other team's goalie.
  We made out first shot, and the goalie blocked the other teams first shot. Then they made it, and we did too. Then both teams missed twice in a row. Finally we scored and then blocked the shot, so we won!! It was the most intense thing to watch. I think I prefer hockey over football because you're right there close up to the ice and it's a better fan based atmosphere. I am definitely a huge fan of SCSU hockey and I will be going to as many games as I possibly can.