Monday, March 9, 2009

GO BLAZERS!! 111-94

so today . . . i'm watching a blazers game! (that's basketball, for those of you who live in la and think the only team who exists wears purple and gold.) of course, i have to watch them playing the evil lakers in order to see them play, since i don't have cable or espn and i live in socal now. but still . . .

when we lived in southern oregon, the majority of the blazer games were broadcast in our area so we were able to see most of them. it was fun, because i could recognize the players, i knew which refs hated our team, and which teams were hard to beat. we knew the statistics and standings of our team, and how each win or loss would affect that. lots of times we would get together with our friends, ron and joanne, and have pizza and cheer for the same team and boo the referees. we collected blazer glassware from dairy queen, and used it for our pop during games. we watched a couple of games a week and got pretty emotionally invested. when our favorite players moved to other teams, we supported those teams (unless they were playing our beloved blazers.) we even voted for clyde drexler when he was on dancing with the stars--even though he was a terrible dancer--because he is our favorite player of all time (acutally, that would be diandra and me--rollie wouldn't be caught dead watching that show!) we watched basketball from november until, hopefully, into june.

now that i live in southern california, i don't pay much attention to it any more. everyone here loves the lakers, and i just can't. they are evil. rollie, sadly, has gone over to the dark side--and while i still love him, we can't watch basketball together anymore. i pretend to listen when he tells me about kobe's latest antics, but mentally i have my fingers in my ears and i'm saying, "la la la la la," so i don't have to actually hear what he is saying. from late in may until usually well into june, i have to fight the urge to be rude to the cars who have the nerve to drive around town with their little laker flags flying from their windows. really. i have to remind myself that God loves them too, but i'm sure it is in spite of the fact that they support the lakers--because, you know, they are evil (the lakers, not the people with the flags--they are just deluded.)

one day i was shopping with diandra and trying on a dress. it was pretty cute, and i thought it would be nice for my upcoming vacation. she looked at me and said, "you realize you are wearing laker colors, don't you?" i looked at the purple dress with the gold colored tank top under it and thought, "YIKES!" needless to say, it was left on the rack . . .

tonight, my blazers beat the lakers. it was kind of weird to watch. i didn't recongize any of the players or referees. they were playing in portland, so the crowd noise was for the blazers, but the commentators were definitely in the laker camp. it was even more confusing because one of the commentators was steve jones, who used to do the blazer games--familiar voice with very unfamiliar words coming out of his mouth. i amost had to turn the sound down! but part way through the third quarter i found myself yelling at the tv (mostly at the commentators) and i knew that it didn't matter that i couldn't recognize any of the players, or that i didn't know their win/loss record or where they were in the standings. i wanted them to win this game!

the fact is, the blazers are my team--win or lose. and the lakers will always be evil. that is just the natural order of things in julie-world. so get used to it!

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Julie, This has got to be your absolute best blog EVER. You obviously know what you are talking about. Plus, the Trailblazers have one of the best home record this year. And Rollie's evil Lakers had to resort to flagrant fouling one of the Blazer's players.. Sad.

Jewelielyn said...

yes! thank you!! did you HEAR the commentators defending that move?!?!? i admit i was yelling at the tv . . .

Rollie said...

Hello. I'm right here. I can read you. Stop trashing my Lakers. Clearly you weenies don't play Basketball. Ariza's foul wasn't a flagrant. He was going for the ball. Even the NBA league office said today they will not discipline him. Just good hard basketball.

Anonymous said...

i never been called a "weenie" by a pastor before... must be a pastor who likes the lakers that would stoop that low..


ps- where did my other comment go?