A new experience

Well player number 86 invited me to watch him play an ice hockey match this afternoon. Such activities are not in my genes, and I'm still deafened from the noise and still blushing from the vociferous and ripe language around me, but I did enjoy it. I was fascinated by the mechanics and the violence one minute and then the buddy buddy behaviour the next. Yes I enjoyed it, and can tick off another experience. I draw the line at a football match though.
I had watched a Wagner opera in the afternoon and am still debating which was the noisiest experience.