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At last week’s match against the New Orleans Pelicans, where the Houston Rockets won 100:95, two Houston Community College students were shadowing Rockets employees on a game day at the Toyota Center.

The Houston Community College is an educational partner of the Houston Rockets.

Although not everyone is needed on the court, there are many more things to do on a game day from security, concessions, cameramen and journalists, dancers and performers and among many others, promoters.

The HCC students trailed in the footsteps of the promoters.

Even though the game started at 7pm, the workday for the promoters started at 2pm. By that time the stadium was already bustling hours before opened it to the audience.

After meeting the game day …show more content…

IVAN MEDINA:

I have been to plenty of sporting matches but I have never really payed attention to anything on the jumbotron besides the game info and any replays. Well after my experience shadowing the Game Operations team for the Houston Rockets last week I have a whole new respect for the unseen, and unnoticed individuals responsible for your in-game entertainment. Although the game starts at 7, the real work begins hours before; promos must be created and scheduled, equipment and props must be gathered and staged, and dozens of t-shirts must be rolled tight before showtime.

The production meeting takes place fifteen minutes before doors open where everyone goes over their assigned schedules. In the world of sports nothing is predictable, there are no scheduled commercial breaks besides halftime, so everything is scheduled around time outs. Anything and everything could go wrong so backups must be in place in case a planned segment does not work or possibly a timeout does not occur in a …show more content…

My first assignment was to run up to section 430 and find two fans dressed in Rockets swag to receive a free seat upgrade and tickets to a future game. Once they were picked out a message had to be sent upstairs so the cameramen know where to shoot during the second time out in the first quarter. Our whole night was like this, we had to gather and make sure the people for these scheduled promos were in their seats the entire time until the segment was completed. It wasn't all work though, we got to spend a considerable amount of time on the court before, during, and after the

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