NEW YORK - I went to Brooklyn to cover a game and ended up covering a practice.
I mean, we're talking about a practice.
The original assignment: the Flyers vs. the New York Islanders Saturday night at the Barclays Center. As tasks go, this did not rank up there with covering the America's Cup in Australia, which The Inquirer did once during the golden age of newspapers and United States yacht racing.
Still, I was looking forward to seeing Brooklyn's relatively new arena for the first time.
That appeal wore off, however, in the middle of last week when the forecasts started calling for the whale of all blizzards in the Mid-Atlantic region.