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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2014 21:02:29 GMT -5
Based on suggestions/requests in the Meanwhile thread and elsewhere, I am starting this. Whether it's baseball, football, hockey, boxing, cricket or futbol, about games that were, are or will be, or about memorabilia and nostalgia, pour yourself a beer, place an order for potato skins or wings, and talk up your favorite and least favorite. Go Sox  and cue the Brass Bonanza remember the Whale!  -M |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 26, 2014 21:18:41 GMT -5
Cue The Orchestra
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Post by Action Ace on May 26, 2014 21:31:32 GMT -5
 DA BEARS!  DA BULLS!!!  I hate hockey, so I don't care about the only local team with a chance of winning anything. My alma mater for college sports...  My favorite sport is golf. My favorite player of all time is Tom Watson.  |
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Post by DubipR on May 26, 2014 21:50:14 GMT -5
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Post by Jesse on May 26, 2014 22:42:43 GMT -5
Awesome idea! Pirates won tonight so raise the Jolly Roger!  |
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Post by berkley on May 26, 2014 23:16:08 GMT -5
Missed the Kings/BlackHawks game tonight due to work, but I see LA won. They look to me like the strongest team in this year's playoffs. I'm pretty much a lifelong Canadiens fan, but I have a hard time imagining anyone from the east beating them (LA) in the finals - or the Black Hawks, for that matter.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 27, 2014 0:01:56 GMT -5
Tonight was another tragic reminder of why it's so hard to be a Pacers fan.
At least they got to play in the finals once!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on May 27, 2014 9:41:47 GMT -5
When it comes to sports I'm pretty much just a college football fan. I'll watch any college football game. But I bleed for my alma mater.  |
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2014 22:07:48 GMT -5
Born in San Francisco and raised an hour north of there in Santa Rosa, so sorry in advance Dodger fans. It's a great rivalry that we share.  And my favorite team in all of sports:  And the best of the rest:   Looking forward to the Steve Kerr era! |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on May 27, 2014 22:37:19 GMT -5
50 Cents signed to Mets pitching staff after his tryout today
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2014 22:44:15 GMT -5
My dad was stationed in Texas the year the Cowboys started play, so he was a huge Cowboys fan, and growing up in the 70's with Staubach Dorsett, Ed Too Tall Jones and such I became a fan. Can't stand Jerry Jones, but still like the 'Boys even though they are mediocre at best for the better part of the last 20 years. But it is so fitting that their best defensive player hasn't been able to stay on the field, and this was going ot be the year he did, except today in the first day of OTA's Sean Lee tore his ACL and will now miss the season....
-M
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Post by berkley on May 28, 2014 0:37:44 GMT -5
Habs survive to play another day! Though they did their best to give the game away after building a 3 goal lead in the 2nd.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2014 9:45:28 GMT -5
Tonight was another tragic reminder of why it's so hard to be a Pacers fan. At least they got to play in the finals once! If you join me in living in the past, you can celebrate Indiana as the class of the ABA. |
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Post by Rob Allen on May 28, 2014 18:58:20 GMT -5
My first sports memories are of the New York Mets in the early-to-mid 1960s. I went to a few games at Shea Stadium. The first one, the Mets lost to the Dodgers with Sandy Koufax pitching. I got heavily into baseball statistics and trivia in 1965-66, and still remember some facts & figures from that year. The 1969 Miracle Mets were my focus that summer; that's when my 2-year hiatus from comics started.
In the same time period I also started paying attention to football - it was the Joe Namath era in New York - basketball, Willis Reed & co. - and because my father was particularly interested in hockey, the New York Rangers.
Later on, in my senior year of college, I latched on to the Rangers games shown on channel 9 and hockey in general as my escape from the pressures of life. I remained a hockey fan for a couple of decades. As a nearly lifelong New Jerseyan, I was delighted when the Devils moved in, but it still took a few years and the trading of some of my favorite players for me to shift my enthusiasm from the Rangers to the Devils. When I moved to Massachusetts I watched the Bruins of course, even went to a game at the old Boston Garden. But I wasn't there long enough for it to really sink in. Ditto with southern California; I went to opening day at Anaheim Stadium for the Angels and was a season-ticket holder for the first year of the Mighty Ducks, but after that year I moved to Portland.
Portland had one major-league team - the Trail Blazers of the NBA. I hadn't paid much attention to basketball since the Willis Reed era, and didn't know a pick-and-roll from a Kaiser roll. So it took several years to adapt. I tried to continue following the NHL but it just took too much extra effort. What finally did it for me was when the Blazers acquired Damon Stoudamire in a trade. He grew up in Portland and attended a high school that I drive past every day. Even if I didn't know the game, I could follow the story of a player coming home to play for the team that he had idolized as a boy. So, Damon's introduction to the Blazers became my introduction to them as well.
Now, Damon Stoudamire is a coach in Memphis and I've been a rabid Blazers fan for more than a decade. I still have residual affection for all the other teams I mentioned, but the Blazers are the only ones I really follow.
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Post by Hoosier X on May 28, 2014 23:37:56 GMT -5
YAY, PACERS!!!
They came through tonight!!!
Can they do it again Friday in Miami?
(One game at a time.)
And how about those Kings! I may have to watch a hockey game or two.
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