About Super Sports Weekend 

What is a Super Sports Weekend?

A Super Sports Weekend occurs when one attends 3 major (usually team) sporting events at 3 different venues over the course of three days, usually at least some part of which occurs on a weekend.   

Don’t get too hung up on the technical details.  The key questions you need to ask yourself are 1) are there multiple sporting events and sports venues involved?  2) are you with friends or loved ones enjoying these events and 3) at the end of the 3 day stretch when you return to your normal life and you tell someone what you did, would a reasonable person say “ah, cool.”?  If you can check those boxes you’re on the right track.

Tell me more about the main components of a Super Sports Weekend…

Major – Defined by this site (for now) as the most popular North American team sports – the Football (NFL and college football), Basketball (NBA and college basketball), Baseball (Major League Baseball), hockey (NHL), and soccer (MLS). 

 3 Different Venues – Catching a three game set at Fenway is awesome, but it’s not a Super Sports Weekend.  Part of the fun is traveling between stadiums and experiencing different environments, if not different cities entirely.

Three days, usually part of a weekend – This site will show mostly Friday through Sunday options with the occasional Saturday through Monday for holidays. Most of us that enjoy live sports events have jobs, hence the weekend part. There are times when it’s possible to take in two games on the same day. Can that be a Super Sports Weekend? It can but that seems stressful. Instead of hitting one game on a Saturday then battling traffic to get to another venue to take in another game that night I’d rather have a nice dinner Saturday night, go out and enjoy the town, then regroup and take in the final game of the weekend on Sunday.

Where does this come from? Do people actually do this?

The first Super Sports Weekend was born by chance.  Sitting in a bar in mid-September with friends discussing plans for the next week with I revealed that I would be traveling to Boulder, Colorado the next week for a Friday night, nationally-televised game between the Colorado Buffaloes (who were nationally ranked at the time if you can believe it) and the West Virginia Mountaineers.  When someone asked if I was also going to hit the Broncos game that Saturday I said I hadn’t thought of it but I was going to try to sneak in a Colorado Rockies game that Friday.  My friends and I realized the stars had aligned for a pretty fun weekend built around sports.  3 major sports events in 3 different venues in the course of a weekend. 

It went well.  Colorado won that game on a last-second field goal (we even got to rush the field because there was a period in which Colorado fans rushed the field after every win – like we knew our days of relevance were numbered).  The Rockies game was well, a Rockies game, which is to say it was a microbrew-fueled, crisp, beautiful evening with some inconsequential baseball playing in the background.  The Broncos game was the highlight as the Jake Plummer (the SNAKE!)-led Broncos outlasted the New Orleans Saints on a missed-field goal as time expired. 

And those were the games.  That doesn’t even account for the nights out in Boulder and Denver with friends.  We were on to something.

Our second Super Sports Weekend was the rare sequel that eclipsed the original.  It was the “Aliens” of sports adventure trips.  Fly into Milwaukee for Miller Brewery tour before a Brewers game (Brewers fans tailgate baseball games!), drive to Green Bay for a Packers game (again by chance the Saints were in town and lost on a last second field goal – I own the Saints), followed by a drive into Chicago for a Cubs game.  Three iconic sports franchises in one weekend (And if you’re thinking, “wait, are you calling the Brewers an iconic franchise?” The answer is yes. Our love for all things Wisconsin runs deep).  Again, the party, the people we met along the way, the near arrests - were as big a part of the trip as the games themselves.

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