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the cliffs of insanity!!
May. 3rd, 2012 11:46 pmThe chronicling of Mei as a sports fan when she doesn't go in with an ingrained bias (see: UNC, Canes, Hawks I guess kind of, Knicks):
1A. Randomly pick a team, or
1B. Be influenced towards one team due to friends (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
2naonh3_cl2 and the Flyers) or a vague sense of obligation (Caps, since I'm in DC...)
2. Watch their games, distantly hoping they do well
3. Make noncommittal and/or philosophical comments when they don't do well
4. Get sucked in when they start playing well
5. Get invested
6. Get overinvested
7. Curse a lot
8. Watch them lose
9. Throw self off cliff of emotions in despair
10. ???
11. Profit
I started playoff season with two teams, okay: Canes, my forever team (thank you, Carolina) (and thank you, Jeff Skinner and Estaal - I acknowledge they are the best and my favorites) and Hawks, my "hey if it weren't for their fandom, I wouldn't even be watching this" team.
Having now watched the Flyers and Caps through Round 1 out of minor obligation, I'm now apparently invested in them as teams. Too bad Round 2 is destined to bring me nothing but despair because, again, OPTIMISM IS FOR LOSERS. It's not just how they (occasionally) play good hockey - it's that I've also now spent more time watching interviews and random videos of the teams and their players and now - now I care. Even more than I did! Let me tell you all of my feelings for G, Ovie, Holtby, Backstrom, Bryz, Semin, BOBBY RYAN. Wait, sorry, I mean.
There is no way to go backwards from investment.
According to "real" sports fans, you can't have more than one team you get crazy emotional over. (According to my obnoxious sports fan guy friend, that team can only be your "home" team - I got so much shit for supporting Spain in the World Cup, to which I say: "Suck it!" Or, uh, the Spanish equivalent, if I remembered any of my Spanish.) Whatever, "real" sports fans. I'm an overachiever, okay? I am overflowing with feelings! These feelings cannot all be contained within one team (especially if that team doesn't even make the playoffs, sigh) AND I CANNOT BE HELD BACK.
Well, until Round 3 is a Rangers-Devils match-up, of course, in which case I will just root for the Kings to win the Cup (from my location at the bottom of the cliff I've thrown myself off). (Don't worry, I'll climb back up that sheer face and fight a man whose father I killed, first with my left hand and then with my right. And then I will die. But probably I will come back to life again.)
Uh, I think I lost my point. Did I have a point?
Oh, yes. Have you seen how built Jeff Skinner is? I cannot even deal with this picture, even ignoring that really NSFW MS Paint addition to it. Those arms.
So how's hockey been for you guys? Fun? Full of anguish? Emotionally exhausting? Filling you with the desire to write lots and lots of Ovie/Semin, Getzy/Ryan, or Danny/Claude? :D? Richards/Carter? Segs/Marchy? Ebs/Hall?
1A. Randomly pick a team, or
1B. Be influenced towards one team due to friends (
2naonh3_cl2 and the Flyers) or a vague sense of obligation (Caps, since I'm in DC...)2. Watch their games, distantly hoping they do well
3. Make noncommittal and/or philosophical comments when they don't do well
4. Get sucked in when they start playing well
5. Get invested
6. Get overinvested
7. Curse a lot
8. Watch them lose
9. Throw self off cliff of emotions in despair
10. ???
I started playoff season with two teams, okay: Canes, my forever team (thank you, Carolina) (and thank you, Jeff Skinner and Estaal - I acknowledge they are the best and my favorites) and Hawks, my "hey if it weren't for their fandom, I wouldn't even be watching this" team.
Having now watched the Flyers and Caps through Round 1 out of minor obligation, I'm now apparently invested in them as teams. Too bad Round 2 is destined to bring me nothing but despair because, again, OPTIMISM IS FOR LOSERS. It's not just how they (occasionally) play good hockey - it's that I've also now spent more time watching interviews and random videos of the teams and their players and now - now I care. Even more than I did! Let me tell you all of my feelings for G, Ovie, Holtby, Backstrom, Bryz, Semin, BOBBY RYAN. Wait, sorry, I mean.
There is no way to go backwards from investment.
According to "real" sports fans, you can't have more than one team you get crazy emotional over. (According to my obnoxious sports fan guy friend, that team can only be your "home" team - I got so much shit for supporting Spain in the World Cup, to which I say: "Suck it!" Or, uh, the Spanish equivalent, if I remembered any of my Spanish.) Whatever, "real" sports fans. I'm an overachiever, okay? I am overflowing with feelings! These feelings cannot all be contained within one team (especially if that team doesn't even make the playoffs, sigh) AND I CANNOT BE HELD BACK.
Well, until Round 3 is a Rangers-Devils match-up, of course, in which case I will just root for the Kings to win the Cup (from my location at the bottom of the cliff I've thrown myself off). (Don't worry, I'll climb back up that sheer face and fight a man whose father I killed, first with my left hand and then with my right. And then I will die. But probably I will come back to life again.)
Uh, I think I lost my point. Did I have a point?
Oh, yes. Have you seen how built Jeff Skinner is? I cannot even deal with this picture, even ignoring that really NSFW MS Paint addition to it. Those arms.
So how's hockey been for you guys? Fun? Full of anguish? Emotionally exhausting? Filling you with the desire to write lots and lots of Ovie/Semin, Getzy/Ryan, or Danny/Claude? :D? Richards/Carter? Segs/Marchy? Ebs/Hall?
