The climb up to Section 18, Row XX at Market Square Arena is a long one, involving dozens and dozens of steps. It's a lot of work, but the scenery is incomparable. It's a midcourt perspective that gives you, literally, a bird's-eye view of everything going on inside the arena. My friends couldn't understand why I was forcing them to make the long climb when, after all, we were at a free event and could sit anywhere at Market Square. They didn't understand.
Nobody seems to understand.
You can see the joys and frustrations in the faces of the crowd. There's not a better view in town. Nobody seems to understand why the closing of Market Square Arena is such a devastating loss to me. It's not just because I've spent hundreds of hours there, enjoying everything from the circus to Megadeth to Pacers games. It's because the loss of MSA symbolizes everything that's wrong with this city and everything that has always been wrong about this city.