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March 21, 2006
Loyalty
There are some lines you don't cross.
Monday night, my Dad and I were at the Celts/Lakers game. The halftime show was a feeble free-throw-shooting/tic-tac-toe medley, but that's not the point. They introduced the contestants: "Contestant One is so-and-so from Los Angeles...", scattered boos, "Contestant Two is what's-his-name from New York..."
I turned to my Dad and said, "LA and New York?!? What's next? An Iraqi?"
Yeah, you had to be there, but my point stands. I know people go different places, and do different things, but one thing you don't do is give an arena full of Boston fans a Los Angeleno and a New Yorker and expect us to root for one.
And if you're the center fielder for the first Red Sox champion in 86 years, you don't go to the Yankees and expect to be forgiven.
And if you're the best kicker ever, you don't go to the Colts and expect us not to hope your game falls apart.
Enjoy Indiana, Adam. Call me in mid-January. I suspect you'll be available.
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Why you gotta be all the time hating on my peoples? Especially when I (a native new yorker) got nothing but love for y'all...
Posted by: The Rev. | March 22, 2006 12:44 AM
Trust me - the me that gets all up in the sports rivalries is a very different person than the me you see every day. Some of my best friends are New Yorkers!
Posted by: michael | March 22, 2006 12:57 AM
I'm surprised and disappointed that Vinateri left, and slightly annoyed that he left to go to the Colts. The Cowboys: maybe. The Packers: maybe. But you really have to want to stick it to your old team by going to the team that keeps wanting to beat them and whom you have delighted in beating in the past. At least -- at least -- it is not a team in the same division.
Johnny Damon is an idiot.
Posted by: Vin | March 22, 2006 02:02 PM
