Rant #3,744: 1, 2, 3

My son and I attended the TNA Slammiversary event at the UBS Arena on Sunday night, and we had a fun time while there ...

Less the time spent in the car, of course.

Funny, the arena is just about 10 miles away from the Nassau Coliseum, but it is really worlds away from the old barn.

Driving was impossible, Sunday evening traffic was terrible, and I needed my phone's GPS to find our parking lot.

It took us about 45 minutes to get there, versus about the 20 minutes it normally takes us to go to the Coliseum.

Once there, we happily discovered that the parking lot we were in was a lot closer to the arena than where we parked five years ago when we were last there.

It cost more than $50 to park there; I wasn't too thrilled about that, but they have you by the you know what, because honestly, where else can you park?

(By the way, the actual tickets, individually, were cheaper than the parking!)

That time, we had to take a shuttle to even get to the outskirts of the arena ... and then, unbeknownst to us, we then had to walk halfway around the arena to get to the front entrance.

There was none of that this time, but once we entered, we ran into the usual detriments--

The food was incredibly over-priced--more than $8 for a single slice of pizza--and the merchandise lines were literally an hour-wait long.

But once we got settled, we saw a very good nearly four-and-a-half hour show, with several excellent matches, and the return of former TNA star AJ Styles to the fold, albeit very briefly and without consequence.

Once the show was over just before 11:30 p.m., we walked to our car, but the lighting wasn't good and it took us a couple more minutes to locate it.

Getting out was pretty bad, everyone going every which way to one single exit, and even using the GPS again, the lighting was so bad that I missed where I had to drive to to get home.

I managed to double back, but even getting on the right road and without traffic, we still didn't get home until slightly past 12 midnight.

So all in all, the show was a good one--the attendance was more than 7,600, a supposed record for a TNA show--but getting there, and getting out, were difficult, at best.

The UBS Arena is a nice, modern arena, but while it won't say I will never go back, I would so much rather see pro wrestling at Nassau Coliseum or Madison Square Garden--

But the best way remains watching it on TV in the comfort of your home.