The conversations that happened tonight normally don't happen for a year or two, but they're very helpful to the officials. These people will come into it with realistic expectations and knowing the faces of their leadership right from the start.

Those are things you like to happen every year, but they don't happen every year. Obviously, it hasn't happened since. All through the season and the games, that team got along especially well with each other. That carried over in life and in reality has gotten much stronger.

What happened a year ago doesn't have anything to do with what's going to happen tomorrow.

I don't know why it happened the way it happened tonight.

Normally they do 700 or so, but they're expecting to double that tonight.

The park's doing everything it can. If they can't make it happen there, maybe they can't make it happen. Normally, the park is a stronghold for a species.