SPORTS FAN

I’m a fair-weather sports fan. I enjoy football and basketball. I learned to enjoy hockey. After all, I did live in Canada for 15 years. However, I never reached the soaring enthusiasm of my mother–in-law who lived for the games. I got a little excited about junior hockey. I often went across the street to watch the Regina Pats play and managed to continue to follow them in Oregon. They were in the same league with Portland.

Personally I preferred football from my days in Canada. I lived 5 blocks from the Regina Roughrider stadium and had season tickets for three of my six years there. I loved the speed of the Canadian game. Only three downs meant more passing and the longer field was fun. However, I hated the cold weather. If any place needed an enclosed stadium it was Regina! I know the season ends in November, but that is one cold month in Saskatchewan. I hope they have enclosed it by now, but I have my doubts.

I moved to Oregon during the height of Clyde Drexler, Terry Porter, Buck Williams, and guys and quickly because a Portland Trailblazer fan. Canby was so close to Portland we were always being blacked out, but a friend had the all Blazer TV package so I spent a lot of game nights at his place.

When the Blazers went through their bad days, I went through my-ignore-the-Blazer days. See – fair-weather sports fan.

I like college basketball I have no college in particular that I follow. In fact, I don’t even watch until the play offs begin. I had great plans for today. I planned to watch the Washington Huskies play North Carolina. My son-in-law is a big fan. I woke up in time to watch the last half. It was a good game. Felt bad that the Huskies lost. Maybe if I had been more supportive earlier in the year? Ridiculous! My attitude as no bearing on their play – thank goodness.

I planned to watch Duke play next. I don’t even remember the tip off. I slept right though that game and the next one, whoever they were. I don’t know if I slept through two good games or two that should have been slept through. I could look it up on line, but think I’ll go back to sleep instead. It felt great.

I like basketball but it is clearly not the focus of my life. Yawn!