[stasman]

Did anybody attend the Sports Show last weekend in Rosemont, Illinois? I love going to the shows but this was the first time I went on a Friday. I arrived at 6:45pm and picked up my Bobby Hull ticket at Will Call (ticket #45). Hull wasnt signing until 7pm so I started walking around. At 7pm, they call ticket # 1-75 for Hull..I thought, wow, thats alot of tickets, its usually 1-25. Oh well, I happily stolled over to line and was about the 50th person. A short time later they called for ALL tickets..OK...now everyone got into the line and they snaked us for about 6 lanes. Bobby was very nice and a great signer, but he signs very slow. It took a little over 1 hr for me to get my auto. It was now around 830 pm and there was at least 100 people still in line and the dealers were all shutting down. I have been to many shows and in the past Mounted Memories have managed their lines well, but I didnt undestand why they had all of us line up at once, I'm sure there were many people like me who would have liked to walk around and spend money in the booths instead of standing in a line for 2 hrs. Isnt that the reason they number the tickets....I was just curious if anybody was still in line after 9pm....and I wanted to give a shout out to the guy with with Hull game used hawks and Jets jerseys (great game use and sweat--I hope Hull was impressed, they were very cool....)