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The Rose Bowl
Jan. 5th, 2006 12:40 amSometimes I wish I had more sports fans on my flist. But only sometimes.
Good job there, UofTexas.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kd5mdk don't burn down, mmmkay?
Although, with all due deference to my Texas friends... I wasn't so much excited about Texas winning as USC losing. If those of you who don't follow sports think the Mainstream News Media(tm) can beat a story to death, you haven't seen the way ESPN was fellating USC in the (seemingly endless) run-up to this game.
And I know how Texas fans must have felt coming into this game, because ESPN and the rest do it to Detroit, year in and year out. Only when the Detroit Pistons nailed some arbitrary point in Won-Loss statistics did ESPN and the others look up and go, "Huh. Maybe there's something to these Pistons. I mean, I know they're the EXACT SAME guys who won a NBA Championship one year and took San Antonio to the last seconds of a seventh game the next year, but why should that mean that they're likely to walk all over the star-packed-ego-fest-poor-excuses-for-a-team that we're all giggly about this year? Here, for the third year in a row, let's get all surprised that they're doing so well." And then ESPN commentators have the gall to pick on the Pistons for playing with a chip on their collective shoulder.
I don't want to sound like too much of a homer here, though I obviously am, but when even in the Pistons' (and I'm guessing San Antonio's, too) home market, ABC hypes the crap out of the Heat-Lakers (read: Shaq-Kobe) Christmas Day game and all but ignores the Pistons-Spurs matchup, something has certainly gone wrong. (For those not in-the-know who have managed to read this far, the Spurs and Pistons on Christmas Day had the two best records in the NBA by a wide margin; the Heat and Lakers are both struggling, playing mediocre b-ball, at best. Kobe Bryant scores a lot of points every game, but he has to, because no one else on his team can.)
And then there's the Red Wings, but the deck's already stacked against them, since ESPN is all-but-ignoring hockey altogether.
So, I feel your pain, UofTexas fans. And hopefully I'll share in your joy this spring when the Pistons and Red Wings conjure a one-two punch of league championships.
Good job there, UofTexas.
kd5mdk don't burn down, mmmkay?Although, with all due deference to my Texas friends... I wasn't so much excited about Texas winning as USC losing. If those of you who don't follow sports think the Mainstream News Media(tm) can beat a story to death, you haven't seen the way ESPN was fellating USC in the (seemingly endless) run-up to this game.
And I know how Texas fans must have felt coming into this game, because ESPN and the rest do it to Detroit, year in and year out. Only when the Detroit Pistons nailed some arbitrary point in Won-Loss statistics did ESPN and the others look up and go, "Huh. Maybe there's something to these Pistons. I mean, I know they're the EXACT SAME guys who won a NBA Championship one year and took San Antonio to the last seconds of a seventh game the next year, but why should that mean that they're likely to walk all over the star-packed-ego-fest-poor-excuses-for-a-team that we're all giggly about this year? Here, for the third year in a row, let's get all surprised that they're doing so well." And then ESPN commentators have the gall to pick on the Pistons for playing with a chip on their collective shoulder.
I don't want to sound like too much of a homer here, though I obviously am, but when even in the Pistons' (and I'm guessing San Antonio's, too) home market, ABC hypes the crap out of the Heat-Lakers (read: Shaq-Kobe) Christmas Day game and all but ignores the Pistons-Spurs matchup, something has certainly gone wrong. (For those not in-the-know who have managed to read this far, the Spurs and Pistons on Christmas Day had the two best records in the NBA by a wide margin; the Heat and Lakers are both struggling, playing mediocre b-ball, at best. Kobe Bryant scores a lot of points every game, but he has to, because no one else on his team can.)
And then there's the Red Wings, but the deck's already stacked against them, since ESPN is all-but-ignoring hockey altogether.
So, I feel your pain, UofTexas fans. And hopefully I'll share in your joy this spring when the Pistons and Red Wings conjure a one-two punch of league championships.