So with the Sabres packing it in last night, I guess its all about 2007 from now on. Yet another sporting year has passed me and my teams by.
At the expense of my waning sanity, here’s quick run down of where it all went wrong:
January, 2006 – Watching the Boilermaker-less BCS bowl games.
After kicking off the season as the 15th ranked team in college football, and getting as high as 11th by week 2, Purdue wrapped up an absolutely rotten season at 5-6, tied for 8th in the Big Ten. In September, I was thinking Rose, by November I was praying for ####lord Hotel Motor City. In the end bowl gods smiled on me with a pretty decent consolation prize though. 2006 had the best series of bowl games played in my lifetime.
February, 2006 – Watching the Bills-less Super Bowl game.
Unlike the aforementioned Purdue boys, this team went from bad to worse. You know your team is bad when they don’t even look good from a seat in the luxury boxes. Bowl gods must have thought I looked tired as well, because that Superbowl was a total snore-fest.
March, 2006 – Watching a Boilermaker and Bull-less March Madness Tournament.
Didn’t matter in the least though, because that basketball season was a guaranteed success the second the AP polls came out in week 5. Way down at the bottom of the poll, under “other’s receiving votes”, were the UB Bulls with 1 vote. Now I have no idea who this voter was, or more importantly what he was on and where I can get some, but I’m pretty sure his next writing assignment was covering the Mint 400 with his lawyer in tow. Mr. Thompson, you and your stash made my basketball season.
May, 2006 – Knowing I’ll be watching a Cubs-less World Series soon enough
There I was, 4 rows for the field on the first base side. I saw the full extent of the disaster with my very own eyes, while realizing that it’s another 5 full months until this team gets put out of its misery. On the plus side, dude, I was like at Wrigley Field!
June, 2006 – Watching the Sabres-less Stanley Cup.
Be strong, you can get through this. One day at a time. One day at a HOLY #### WE WERE WINNING THROUGH TWO PERIODS WHY GET TIRED NOW WHY WHY WHY WHY?
I am a Sabres fan, a Cubs fan, a Boilermakers fan, a Ti-cat fan and a Hamilton Bulldogs fan. I'm an obvious sucker for punishment. I believe that while playing them can be a tolerable way to kill 5 hours, there is nothing more painful than talking golf or watching poker. There's no excuse for fantasy football, no matter how bored or lonely you are. I don't consider you an athelete unless you can beat me in a race to the corner and back. I'm landlocked and terrible, but I carry on an irrational love affair with surfing. We are in the midst of one of the greatest horseracing years in decades.
