Ok, so I didn't make it past the ticket office but...

Ok, so I didn't make it past the ticket office but let me tell you something....

I have a special needs nephew who loves pocket schedules. It doesn't matter the sport, it doesn't matter the team, he wants them all. And he doesn't just collect them, he carries them everywhere and will hand them out to anyone who will take one. Everyone in my family has been conditioned to look for them anywhere they go.

I was in St Paul for a concert the previous night from Illinois, and this being my first trip to the Twin Cities I had to make the rounds to each of the stadiums to find him schedules. I went to each ticket office to ask for as many schedules as they felt comfortable giving me, no amount was too many. US Bank stadium only gave me 3 Vikings schedules, Target Field had none left (as expected), and Xcel only gave me 5 Wild schedules...

Then we stopped at Target Center. I went in to the window and explained to the woman what I was there for. She said hold on, I'll be right back and through the window I could see her gathering stacks of schedules. She came back and exited through a side door holding a Timberwolves branded tin box. Inside the box where three bundles of schedules, some from this year for both the Twolves and Lynx and a stack of last year's Twolves schedules and a cardboard box display. She said the tin was her own, that she had bought for herself but didn't really know what to do with. She almost had my girlfriend and I in tears with her generosity.

I really wish I caught her name, a representative like that is really how you turn people into fans of your team!