The Valkyries told SF to call in sick. Meet the people who caught a flight. – SFGATE

The Valkyries told SF to call in sick. Meet the people who caught a flight.  SFGATE

Head coach Natalie Nakase said Golden State Valkyries fans will ‘sacrifice’ to watch Game 6, even though it’ll be played entirely in the morning on Thursday in the Bay Area. But for hundreds of Valkyries fans at San Francisco International (SFO) Airport on Wednesday night, just watching from home wasn’t good enough — they had to get to Atlanta, costs be damned. SFGATE went to SFO on Wednesday night and saw more than 50 fans in Valkyries gear boarding a nonstop flight on United to Atlanta around 9 p.m. on Wednesday. An hour later, over 100 more fans were decked out in violet, catching the nonstop flight on Frontier. Final destination: State Farm Arena for the chance to see the first-ever WNBA championship for the second-year team.

“I think some of my family and friends think I’m crazy a little bit,” Jess McPeak, a Valkyries season ticket holder who lives in the Mission, told SFGATE on Wednesday. “But the universe just gave me a path, almost magically.” McPeak, who uses they/them pronouns, thought they were going to not be able to watch the game at all. They had a work meeting that directly conflicted with the 9:30 a.m. Pacific tip time. But on Tuesday, that meeting shifted and their day completely opened up. Pretty soon after, they were booking a