Okay. I thought of a topic to blog about while I was in the loo, but in the THREE SECONDS it took to walk back to my PC I've forgotten it. It had nothing to do with peeing, for a change.
The part I did remember, though, was about American sports. I have decided that, with the coming of the baseball season, I should finally decide which teams I support. As for the sports themselves, I currently love baseball, enjoy ice hockey, and tolerate American football and basketball.
Leading candidates in each discipline are, respectively, the Cincinatti Reds, the Colorado Avalanche, the San Francisco 49ers and the Charlotte Hornets (who seem to have, in my ignorance, become the New Orleans Hornets! For shame!). So now is the moment to tell why why I should change my allegiance to YOUR team in the comments bit below. Be eloquent, passionate, and corrupt, and I'll be yours forever. Maybe.
Posted by biondino at March 31, 2003 09:21 PMah, so while i can understand the good place in your heart that your allegiance to the colorado avalanche comes from, i cannot condone it. logic being as follows: you are from england, a colonizer, and therefore you owe a little bit of said allegiance to the colonies, i.e., canada. not only that, but canada is about hockey and hockey about canada. it's just a fact. okay okay, so the avalanche used to be a canadian team anyway, but still, they exist below the 49th now. so choose a good ol' cdn team, like, oh, lemme think, the vancouver canucks. they win sometimes, they lose sometimes, but they always fight the good fight. and vancouver is pretty. so, in conclusion, go canadian with the hockey team, i mean, if only b/c you're going to have to go american with everything else, but also b/c we used to sing 'god save the queen' before games. and perhaps we still do. perhaps we do...
Posted by: rrrobyn on April 1, 2003 02:58 AMThe Atlanta Braves!
which is baseball.
See, my father used to be a Cinncinnati Red fans and I've been to many of their games. However, when my brother was little (he's three years older than me) he, for whatever reason, became a Braves fan. Thus, my father switched allegiance so he wasn't against the team his son was, even though he had been a fan for 20+ years. That story always makes me smile, especially when I know what a bitch my dad can be otherwise. Hee.
My family used to go to the Braves games and then I'd go with just my father as well so I have lots of memories of toddling out to the stands during the rotten years when only five other people were in the stands.
I am appealing to your sentimental side - go braves!
Posted by: Ll on April 2, 2003 02:23 PMWell, I did enjoy watching the Canucks when I was in Vancouver (actually, I may not have watched them, but I read a lot about them). So perhaps I can have one American and one Canadian team? Would that be fair?
Posted by: Mark on April 2, 2003 02:42 PMI go with Laura. The Major highly recommends the Braves of Atlanta.
Unfortunately, my own sport knowledge extends to being able to perform a patanando in fencing and having an excellent ability to make ripostes.
The Jets, man.
There exists New York. New York is a goodness. There exist The New York Giants. The New York Giants are brutes, barbarians, vikings and rapists.
There exist the New York Jets. The New York Jets are gallant and true, honest, fair, and kind to children and small animals. They also have a quarterback who's REALLY OLD, and a defence that's actually rather competant.
American Football is a thing I like.
Posted by: G on April 6, 2003 03:21 AM