LOL! Are you rooting for Tampa too, or were you just surprised that I wrote that up here? I may have a potty mouth in real life, but I usually try to keep my posts clean. All the Flames fans honking their horns up University Drive took away my customary message board censor.
I usually only think it, and say it out loud only when I'm extremely furious. And in this instance, I think it's completely appropriate and you are a wordsmith.
It appears they are broadcasting Game 6 at McMahon Stadium...right across the street from our apartment. There's already carloads of people screaming and blowing horns at noon. Just lovely. I should have just left town today. Chris actually suggested it, but he is a Flames fan after all, so I wouldn't let him take me away.
Renee
You better hope TB pots the first goal tonight.
If Cal opens the scoring , I see a blowout(6-2).
It's time to separate the men from the boys (i'll avoid any and all jokes here)and TB better prove they are men.
Although they should be very proud at just making it to the finals.
Renee, don't know, but I think it would be great if you... pulled for the Flames tonight. I know you're a Sharks fan, but after all, it doesn't matter who the Flames have beaten to go to the finals. If the Flames win tonight, it will be a great day in Chris' life, I believe, and he'd love to share it with you, I guess.
As far as sports are concerned, one of the great days for me was the 1998 World Cup of soccer, and I was so happy to share those moments with my girlfriend (not the one that became my wife), in Nantes. We saw the games on big screens, with hundreds of other people, and the three goals of the final were simply awesome. What I felt that day was unbelievable. The fact that my lovely girlfriend cheered with me made the experience ten times better, actually. Before the World Cup, she didn't care about soccer, but after a few games she became a fan and knew the name of every French player.
Imagine that: your team hoisting the most coveted sports trophy in the world.
Well, we lucked out. The ruckus at McMahon was a pre-season Stampeders game (CFL). I called the stadium to see if they were broadcasting the game tonight, and I was told that they aren't allowed to show any night games due to security reasons. There's not enough police to secure every place in Calgary that's having crowds gather. Thank goodness I don't have to listen to all those people tonight. I'm sure University Drive will be loud, but I'll take a bunch of moving cars over a stadium full of people any day.
Marc, to a certain extent I see what you're saying. I said I'd root for the Flames until they met the Sharks, and I did. However, I think Chris would be more disappointed in me if I abandoned my loyalty to jump on a bandwagon than he is to deal with us being a house divided. I know he'd love to share a Flames Stanley Cup victory with me....if we were both Flames fans. As it is, he understands. He knows I'm a devoted person when it comes to what I'm passionate about...and since that includes him, he can understand why I'm not gonna cheer on the guys who knocked out my team.
Neither of us are the type to jump on a bandwagon just because our team is gone. Our teams are our teams for better or worse. Chris didn't expect the Flames to get past the first round, and I thought the Sharks might be out in the second. We dreaded that WC Final because we knew one of us would be crushed.
This is really no different than when I (and many other Caps fans) used to relentlessly curse the Pens until they were toast after they eliminated the Caps. The only difference now is that I'm the only one who's a big Sharks fan on this board, so there's not the same level of solidarity. There's a long-standing Sharks/Flames rivalry anyway since the Sharks have knocked the Flames out in the first round in the past. They hate each other. Every time they play, it's intense and both sides seethe. You're just not going to be a Sharks fan in Calgary and root for the Flames when it's down to the most important series.
