well, it's hard to win a basketball game when your opponent is shooting lights out and you are shooting okay-to-moderately-poorly. oh, and it appears only three people on your team can make a basket. sigh.
and seriously: must everyone rush the court when they beat us? i recognize that you're unranked, but simmer down and (as my dad says) act like you've been here before. i have never rushed a court, and i would estimate that was in the student section in cameron for 60 games while in college. when you win, you jump up and down a lot. and scream. and high five people. maybe you hug your friends. but rush the court? i would have had to jump over a reporter, and have you met me? i'm 5'4". plus, i'm pretty classy, and classy people don't rush the court.
There comes a point in a game when a fan knows that his team is not going to win. Usually, if the team is not playing well, this occurs with 5-8 minutes left in the game. The sad part is that the fan continues to hope when all hope is gone. There is the remembrance of the game at Maryland when the team was down by 12 points with one minute left, tied the game in regulation and won in overtime. While that victory was most sweet at the time, the fan is tormented forever thereafter by the false hope of a comeback engendered by that long-ago contest.
ReplyDeleteAnd then, when the fan sees his veterinarian, a State graduate, the next day, the fan must put on the brave face, marvel at the progress of State's program, and lie about how it is good to have a strong intra-conference competition.
But the fan is comforted when he sees his law partner, a Carolina man, in the hallway, knowing that things could be worse.