Yankees SUCK! January 16, 2007
Posted by spacemom in : Go Team Go Team Go Team , trackbackOkay, if you are a Yankees fan, I will start by saying, I’m sorry. No one should have to root for the Yankees. But I digress.
Yesterday was a day off of work for Dr. Jay. Soleil’s gymnastics class was canceled since school was closed. We arranged with daycare that they could take the girls in. Normally, I am home on Mondays. But yesterday… my TEAM was in town. Not that they actually decided to play. No, the game ended as a 3-2 shoot out loss for the Sabras.
After much discussion, Dr Jay and I bought tickets from a nice man on Craig’s list (www.craigslist.org). He was nice enough to suck up the Tick3TM@steer fees, so we paid him face value. The seats were six rows from the glass. NICE.
The Sabres changed their Jerseys and Logo in 1993 and again this year. They brought back the old colors, so I wore my old Jersey and let Jay use the 1993 Jersey. Yes, we went into the new Garden like this.
The problem with living far away from your hometown is that you just have trouble cheering for your team. First, you can almost never see a game on TV (unless you blow the money on a sports package, like we did for Hockey), second, you only have 3-4 changes to even see your team play and third, you have to enter the enemy arena.
Luckily, we paid for the tickets. Tickets in Boston are expensive. We sucked up, knowing this was the only game we would go to this year. The people in the lower seats tend to be a bit nicer than in the nosebleed seats. Yesterday, I had no physical assaults, no beer dumped on me and no sexual taunting. (Yes, all of these have happened at previous games I have gone to in Boston when cheering for the other team).
The worst I had to suffer was the usual taunting that the team sucked and so and so sucked and the goalie sucked. I started to fall into a world of suck.
Why is it that sports fans can’t come up with anything clever? For example, the guy in front of me screamed "Miller! You suck a$$!" Now, I have to agree that if Miller (the Sabre goalie) hadn’t knocked the puck in his own net with 0.7 seconds left in the first period, we might have actually won the game, but does that really mean he sucks a$$? (My reply was "hey, if that’s what does it for you"..his friends gave me high fives for dissing him). There were many chants of "Sabres SUCK". Oh yeah, that’s a clever one for you! If they suck, why are they doing so well this year?
In Boston, it is not uncommon to see "Yankees SUCK" T-shirts and bumper stickers. There’s even a blog! Yeah, I don’t like the Yankees either, but can’t we come up with something better? Like "Jeter sucks A-rod?"* Come on, folks, think with your brain, not the beer in your hand.
I wonder what some of the most clever chants and slogans have been heard in sports arenas. The only one that comes to mind was at Cornell where the Cornell fans would taunt the Princeton hockey team with the chant "Princeton’s in New Jersey"**
Imagine what we could do if we offered fans free tickets for the BEST chant/taunt of the game. It would have to be clean (not include words like suck and any swear words), but downright insulting…
*Honest to G-d T-shirt on sale by Fenway park
**Long time rivalry between the State of New York and the State of New Jersey
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Try being a NY Giants fan in what seems to be mostly Philadelphia Eagle territory. UGH…..now I haven’t gone to a professional sports game of any sort in a while but…unfortunately it’s easier for us to get to Philly venues (Eagles, Phillies, Fliers) than it is to get to North Jersey venues (Giants or Devils).
I had a conversation with someone in the grocery store on Sunday about the Eagles and the Giants. He said Coughlin sucks…I said, in my life time I’ve seen the Giants win the Super Bowl twice…when was the last time the Eagles won the Bowl?
I can basically say the same thing about the Flyers. The Devils have won the Cup….I don’t know how many times in the past decade…when was the last time the Flyers made it that far.
I think one year the admin asked the Duke students to refrain from cussing as it was showing poorly on TV and to the visiting team. So for one game, anytime there was a disagreement with the refs, they all shouted out in unison, “WE BEG TO DIFFER”.
I try that at our basketball games, but ummmm, no one gets it.
Oh how I miss hockey… I’m a dedicated and LONG suffering Rangers fan, born and bred. My dad and I even had season tickets the year before I moved to Israel (the year BEFORE they won the Cup, too, I might add. Who me? Bitter? No…) Unfortunately, living here I don’t even have the option of overspending on the sports package. Once in a blue moon I find some taped game between two teams I couldn’t care less about on at 2 in the morning, but that’s about it. For years I kept up with the stats online, but the bloom wears off that rose pretty fast when you never get to actually see any of the games. My sister’s near Boston though, so she and my dad try to brave the crazed Boston fans and catch the occasional Rangers-Bruins game.
I’ll have to do a blog post about the craziest hockey game I ever saw one of these days…
Try being a Senators’ fan in the land of Sabras.