1. All of my favorite teams in season are turrible (a la Sir Charles).
- Gopher Football (I went to Purdue last weekend...it looked like a D2 scrimmage versus a real Big 10 game with 75K fans cheering).
- The Purple (momma always said, if you don't have anything nice to say....)
- Twins (see previous whine blogs)
- The Wild holds a lead like Jeff Lobl holds his pee.
- The Gopher Winter men have done so little lately that my hope is almost gone (and so will my season ticket checks by the way)
2. I can name the starting 5 to the MN Lynx (and 2 or 3 subs)...that is sad. Congratulations to the World Champion MN Lynx. Ok, quickly name 3 other teams in the WNBA besides Atlanta, NY, and LA....and no the Charlotte Trim is not one of them...buzzzzzzzzz.....times up (I only could name 7 without Google).
3. The Gopher's biggest rival is on the verge of a Heisman trophy award finalist and very good chance of a BCS championship game appearance vs. the SEC champion as we plod through 1-11.
Okay, I could name off 25 more reasons I hate being a sports fan..but you guys would be jumping off of a building if I kept going. So to spice things up, I had a few other sports rock bottom inspiration's occur to me the last few weeks.
Inspiration #1 is a buddy of mine (let's call him Big Doug), who is a huge St. John's football fan. He referred me to this site. Yes, there is a website dedicated to Division 3 football (proof people will read anything, including this blog). So in case you don't follow D3 football, St. John's is a juggernaut...just ask Doug. Last year SJU lost to it's territorial rival St. Thomas for the first time in a long time (20+ years)...SJU/UST is a big rivalry for a million reasons (both catholic, it's student body's went to HS/church together, some families have both Tommies and Johnnies, etc). This year, the Tommies took the Johnnies out back and gave them 20 years worth in one 3 hours time slot....63-7. I've known Doug for 15 years, it's the first time I've ever seen him with the "my team is horrible" look on his face.
Inspiration #2
Speaking of my team is horrible...how about those Longhorns? Texas football is to Indiana basketball, Minnesota hockey, etc. They have the biggest of everything -- including idiotic head coach who literally stopped coaching the night Vince Young made USC look like slow motion a few years back. After losing to the Oklahoma's of the world the 'horns will be happy with a 4th place finish in the Big 12 South. Texas not playing NYD is like MN or Indiana missing the NCAA tournament (inexcusable) in their stronghold sport.
Inspiration #3
You're a Red Sox fan and read the Herald to find out this year's edition is the Best Ever, heck you watch a few games in the first half of the season and it seems true. Their record at the All Star break suggested they would laugh all the way to ALCS at the very least. They had pitching, hitting, defense, and lots of guys named Sully wearing their green "Sawks" hat sitting behind home plate calling their other buddy Sully telling them he's on TV. Well, the fun ended for Sully and a bunch of other guys on a rainy night in Baltimore. The Sawks went from IN (Rays down 7-0 to Yanks in the 8th inning) to possible 1 game playoff, to OUT all in a matter of 2 hours time. How cruel does it get?
Not sure what's worse....being good for a long time and then sucking (see Texas) or just sucking and never figuring it out (see MN Football)?
Okay, I could name off 25 more reasons I hate being a sports fan..but you guys would be jumping off of a building if I kept going. So to spice things up, I had a few other sports rock bottom inspiration's occur to me the last few weeks.
Inspiration #1 is a buddy of mine (let's call him Big Doug), who is a huge St. John's football fan. He referred me to this site. Yes, there is a website dedicated to Division 3 football (proof people will read anything, including this blog). So in case you don't follow D3 football, St. John's is a juggernaut...just ask Doug. Last year SJU lost to it's territorial rival St. Thomas for the first time in a long time (20+ years)...SJU/UST is a big rivalry for a million reasons (both catholic, it's student body's went to HS/church together, some families have both Tommies and Johnnies, etc). This year, the Tommies took the Johnnies out back and gave them 20 years worth in one 3 hours time slot....63-7. I've known Doug for 15 years, it's the first time I've ever seen him with the "my team is horrible" look on his face.
Inspiration #2
Speaking of my team is horrible...how about those Longhorns? Texas football is to Indiana basketball, Minnesota hockey, etc. They have the biggest of everything -- including idiotic head coach who literally stopped coaching the night Vince Young made USC look like slow motion a few years back. After losing to the Oklahoma's of the world the 'horns will be happy with a 4th place finish in the Big 12 South. Texas not playing NYD is like MN or Indiana missing the NCAA tournament (inexcusable) in their stronghold sport.
Inspiration #3
You're a Red Sox fan and read the Herald to find out this year's edition is the Best Ever, heck you watch a few games in the first half of the season and it seems true. Their record at the All Star break suggested they would laugh all the way to ALCS at the very least. They had pitching, hitting, defense, and lots of guys named Sully wearing their green "Sawks" hat sitting behind home plate calling their other buddy Sully telling them he's on TV. Well, the fun ended for Sully and a bunch of other guys on a rainy night in Baltimore. The Sawks went from IN (Rays down 7-0 to Yanks in the 8th inning) to possible 1 game playoff, to OUT all in a matter of 2 hours time. How cruel does it get?
Not sure what's worse....being good for a long time and then sucking (see Texas) or just sucking and never figuring it out (see MN Football)?
