Wednesday, August 20, 2008

A Spelling Lesson in the Winter

By far easily, the worst thing about the basketball season is that it takes place during the cold. I always have to watch my Grizzly basketball with the sniffles, which isn't fun for anyone.
Except me. I love those GRIZZ! It's also fun for the players. You can tell my favorite players by the ones that are having the most fun and are the most fundamentally sound. It's no coincidence that the first 3 letters of fundamentally sound are f-u-n, which, coincidentally, spell fun. Also, m-e-n-t-a-l is in fundamental which spells fundamental. Wait, I mean it spells mental. And mental is what basketball players need to be fundamentally sound.
Do you see what I'm saying? It's like the WEbster people took words that make sense together and put them together to make a bigger word that means what the smaller words mean on a larger scale. It's probably why the Webster people get so many specialty books published. I happen to have their 4th edition sitting on my insurance work desk.
THe point is that it really warms my heart to see a professional basketball star playing the game the right way fundamentally-wise and having fun doing it while doing it the right way. Sometimes it even makes me tear up some. That just makes my sniffles worse, too, which is not more fun for anyone.
Except for me. And blowing my nose a few times during the game isn't going to stop Morgan G. from rooting for all those hard workers and wearing his Grizzly tank top to take out the trash no matter how cold or how much my nose is red. I owe it to the team. They support me as much as support them. With all our hearts. We're in it to win it and have fun and do it the right way. I love them. They're a part of me like us fans are a part of them. I'll be cheering through sickness and health. It's a marriage of love that's right on par with the marriage between a man and his wife. If I have to explain it to you, then that means you don't understand and, therefore, aren't a true fan.

A true fan understands.

I'm so ready for this season. It's gonna be better than fresh funnel cakes. I can't wait.

4 comments:

RV said...

The Pad has the best funnel cakes. I like to get mine with extra Mayo sauce and a refreshing OJ smoothie to wash it down.

morpheus said...

As long as it's not with the dreaded Miracle Whip sauce. That stuff is GROSS!

GO GRIZZ!

Esther Blowing of Bangor ME said...

I have my special GRIZZ pantaloons I wear for every game to help them win, win, WIN!!!
And I never put them in the laundry, or the good luck might wash off.
After every game, I stick them to the wall and know I helped the GRIZZ!!!

TDubbs said...

My favorite part is when they play. Not the game, just play with each other. You know, like friends. Friends that like to play.
But my favorite part is the lighting.