I don’t do dates — that’s your department. [GAME DATE]. [ARENA]. Spurs vs. [OPPONENT].
The kid wore me in. Sat [SECTION]. I remember the walk in more than the game, if I’m honest. The noise. Popcorn and floor wax. You don’t forget your first arena.
Date
[GAME DATE]
Matchup
Spurs vs [OPPONENT]
Final
[SCORE]
Seats
[SECTION]
The game itself — I watched from the kid’s head, which means I saw the jumbotron and the back of the seat in front of us. [KEY MOMENT — woven in from the real box score once the date is confirmed.]
What I remember is the fourth. The whole building on its feet. You feel that through the brim.
After: the tunnel. The noise dropping off behind us. The kid’s hand shaking a little when he held me up. That’s where the ink comes from. That’s next.
Demo note: every bracketed fact above is a placeholder. Once Johnny confirms the game date, the real box score and the key moment get woven into the cap’s telling — nothing here is presented as fact.
02 · the signatures
[NUMBER] of them. Each one cost somebody’s patience. Here’s what I remember.
[PLAYER 1]
signed the [BRIM]
“He was in a hurry. Barely stopped. But he stopped.”
[PLAYER 2]
signed the [LEFT PANEL]
“This one took his time. Asked the kid his name first.”
[PLAYER 3]
signed the [RIGHT PANEL]
“The pen skipped. He went over it twice. I don’t mind. It’s honest.”
Demo note: scrawls are abstract stand-ins, not the real signatures. The one-liners show the intended tone — the true stories get recorded when the SI interviews the kid: who signed, where, and the moment around each one.
03 · talk to the cap
Go ahead. Ask me something.
Teaser only — four scripted exchanges in the cap’s voice. The real conversations happen when the SI is connected and the cap knows the true story.