Stupid Football.
Ladies and Gents, can anyone tell me when I became a sports freak.
Yes. A sports freak.
You know for the past couple of years, I have been ESPN Sportscenter watching, trashtalking, supergirly (i.e. I can only tell you what the cute players do on the field, I don't know nor do I want to know what a "center" does in Football other than stand somewhere in the center) sports fan.
Then this weekend, it all fell apart.
You know I have (had :( super sad) always prided myself on not being an UBER fan- you know one whose whole weekend collapses when your team does loses. All until the stupid CAL v. Oregon Game this weekend. (P.S. I am still in Mourning)
Here in LA, everything EVERYWHERE is USC, SC, USC all the time. You know how annoying it is when some boy/girl whose trust fund is paying for college, screams FIGHT ON in your face with that insipid peace sign they do... and then proclaims themselves to be the greatest school, football team, student body, color in the history of ever, and then makes fun of you for putting yourself through college at the University of Oregon, because you clearly aren't smart enough because if you were you would have gone to USC. SIDENOTE- Nothing good ever came out of USC, except maybe you know Scott's degree, and I am willing to give some latitude to Nicole, but she still might come to her senses and transfer. So I was pretty excited to see that my school's big game would be featured on TV and ESPN, and were finally good enough to shut up some of the SC students.
Things I learned this weekend: Sports can kill fans. Watching that game, I had what I liken to the sports fan heart failure, you know the one where you feel like you are going to pass out, your vision blurs and then miraculously you recover, in time for it to happen again... I wonder how many times a day your body can survive that. Anyway,it was an awful game in that it was a really good game, with a chance at either team winning. I fraking hate games like that. I like to WIN, I don't care if it is a good game, or an outright spanking winning makes me happy. (Ahem Thank the good lord above my NFL team is the Patriots. Everytime, I think I am done with Football and taking up Golf... my boys pull me back in by issuing a spanking to opponents. It melts a girls heart EVERY. SINGLE. TIME)
And here is the other thing with me, when it is a close game like that I get super invested. When I know outright my team can't win unless an act of god occurs, then I just have fun watching, but yeah. I like winning. And that game was horrible to watch because it was super close the entire time, my poorbody didn't get a break.
And then we lost. It was horrifyingly maddeningly frustrating, I told Scott I was giving up Football, I took the condolence calls from friends, and pretty much hated all of Saturday and the only thing that broke me of my post game depression was the twins patting my hands telling me "s'okay," and trying to force feed me their fruit snacks, they are the cutest 3 year olds on the planet!
My friend John, called and took me out to break me out of my post-game funk. And sadly, you know it is bad when a cute boy can't break you out of your WHY, LORD, WHY my team mentality. I tried to warn him I am like a boy when it comes to football, and bless him he tried to keep my mind off of it.... which he did until he told me he was rooting for CAL. And then I was bitter again. (ha, still love ya' john! although NEVER tell me you are rooting for the opposing team again)
Then I got home, and was still bitter and Scott had to talk me down from the season is over, I hate everything but golf cliff. HA.
What the crap is wrong with me.
Well... I don't want this to be downer blog so here are 5 silver linings to end on a high note:
1. Notre Dame 0-5, BWHAHAHAHAH, SUCK IT INDIANA. (Mom, 0-5 means zero wins and 5 loses!!!)
2. Fall Retreat is happening, and I am going... super happy
3. Patriots still Winning.
4. Chargers still losing... BWHAHAH, the fans (re: Brian from Boxing) might have wanted to dial back the trash talking next year
5. I got a stunning new shirt for fall, consider me sold on that Green trend.
Yes. A sports freak.
You know for the past couple of years, I have been ESPN Sportscenter watching, trashtalking, supergirly (i.e. I can only tell you what the cute players do on the field, I don't know nor do I want to know what a "center" does in Football other than stand somewhere in the center) sports fan.
Then this weekend, it all fell apart.
You know I have (had :( super sad) always prided myself on not being an UBER fan- you know one whose whole weekend collapses when your team does loses. All until the stupid CAL v. Oregon Game this weekend. (P.S. I am still in Mourning)
Here in LA, everything EVERYWHERE is USC, SC, USC all the time. You know how annoying it is when some boy/girl whose trust fund is paying for college, screams FIGHT ON in your face with that insipid peace sign they do... and then proclaims themselves to be the greatest school, football team, student body, color in the history of ever, and then makes fun of you for putting yourself through college at the University of Oregon, because you clearly aren't smart enough because if you were you would have gone to USC. SIDENOTE- Nothing good ever came out of USC, except maybe you know Scott's degree, and I am willing to give some latitude to Nicole, but she still might come to her senses and transfer. So I was pretty excited to see that my school's big game would be featured on TV and ESPN, and were finally good enough to shut up some of the SC students.
Things I learned this weekend: Sports can kill fans. Watching that game, I had what I liken to the sports fan heart failure, you know the one where you feel like you are going to pass out, your vision blurs and then miraculously you recover, in time for it to happen again... I wonder how many times a day your body can survive that. Anyway,it was an awful game in that it was a really good game, with a chance at either team winning. I fraking hate games like that. I like to WIN, I don't care if it is a good game, or an outright spanking winning makes me happy. (Ahem Thank the good lord above my NFL team is the Patriots. Everytime, I think I am done with Football and taking up Golf... my boys pull me back in by issuing a spanking to opponents. It melts a girls heart EVERY. SINGLE. TIME)
And here is the other thing with me, when it is a close game like that I get super invested. When I know outright my team can't win unless an act of god occurs, then I just have fun watching, but yeah. I like winning. And that game was horrible to watch because it was super close the entire time, my poorbody didn't get a break.
And then we lost. It was horrifyingly maddeningly frustrating, I told Scott I was giving up Football, I took the condolence calls from friends, and pretty much hated all of Saturday and the only thing that broke me of my post game depression was the twins patting my hands telling me "s'okay," and trying to force feed me their fruit snacks, they are the cutest 3 year olds on the planet!
My friend John, called and took me out to break me out of my post-game funk. And sadly, you know it is bad when a cute boy can't break you out of your WHY, LORD, WHY my team mentality. I tried to warn him I am like a boy when it comes to football, and bless him he tried to keep my mind off of it.... which he did until he told me he was rooting for CAL. And then I was bitter again. (ha, still love ya' john! although NEVER tell me you are rooting for the opposing team again)
Then I got home, and was still bitter and Scott had to talk me down from the season is over, I hate everything but golf cliff. HA.
What the crap is wrong with me.
Well... I don't want this to be downer blog so here are 5 silver linings to end on a high note:
1. Notre Dame 0-5, BWHAHAHAHAH, SUCK IT INDIANA. (Mom, 0-5 means zero wins and 5 loses!!!)
2. Fall Retreat is happening, and I am going... super happy
3. Patriots still Winning.
4. Chargers still losing... BWHAHAH, the fans (re: Brian from Boxing) might have wanted to dial back the trash talking next year
5. I got a stunning new shirt for fall, consider me sold on that Green trend.
posted by Shanelle at 8:52 AM
2 Comments:
YEAH GO PATS!!!!! 5-0 BABY!!!!
I am so releived to find out you might for a brief moment hate football. Althugh how an inteeligent person can like a game where 0 beats 5 is beyond my comprehension!!!!!!
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