Before today’s game fans attending the special 50th anniversary game at Mackey Arena were told to get to their seats early for a special surprise. In recent seasons Purdue has had a nice introduction video that plays on the video board and it works with a special Lights App that sync fans’ cell phones for a special lights display.
That is nothing compared to what we saw today:
This is beautiful. #BoilerUp pic.twitter.com/QWVJ6td2dP
— Purdue Men’s Basketball (@BoilerBall) December 3, 2017
You may have seen something like this before in the NHL, where the white ice surface makes it more possible to do a display like this:
The New Jersey Devils even take you straight to hell:
To my knowledge this is the first college basketball team to do this, but the Cleveland Cavaliers have done it:
The Miami Heat did it for their ring ceremony:
This was a pretty sweet video and hopefully it is the first of many. We have so much more we can add to it.