I'm not a football fan

But watching this game made me see why so many of you love the game so much. This is going to go down as one of the best games in sports, period. It reminded me why I'm a sports fan, even with all the inflated egos and salaries, steroids and starfucking bullshit.

God damn the Giants showed that never say die NY spirit. Nobody believed in them, from the media on down to the silicone-enhanced Botoxed masses that descended on my new city like locusts for the past week.

The Giants made me proud to be a New Yorker tonight. And weirdly, it gave me a new respect for the long suffering Sox fans. See, I've been on the other side of this. Baseball's my game and the Yankees are my team. Watching the media fall over itself to fellate Brady and crown the Pats champs before kickoff even happened made me understand what the Sox fans went through with the Yankees' media coverage.

Pats fans: I'm sorry for your loss, your team had a great season, but damn it feels good to be the underdog and come out on top.

(And I just hope folks remember that, despite emotions running high, it's just a game and while a certain amount of trash-talking is part of the fun, let's not have it get in the way of our celebration of these funny games where grown men play balls. :P)

I let hurt get the best of me, and seeing some of the reactions made it worse.

Take care, Chovexani.

:hug: You're a sweet lady, Mrs. G. You've just had a real rough time.

I'm weird in that I'm part of a couple of subcultures that pretty well despise sports and sports fans, and often find myself having to defend my love of sports. They can bring out our best and our worst. But as long as we recognize it for what it is, that's what counts, I think.

Must be because you're so freakin' cool.

Born and Bred NYer (I'm a Brooklyn girl). But I moved to Phoenix a year and a half ago. Long story involving chasing a relationship that went nowhere.

Funny story: one of the guys from Geek Squad who set up my new TV this morning was from Staten Island. We were laughing about how we couldn't remember the last time the Giants won a SB and how cool it was that they were even in it. His partner made a funny comment about the number of transplanted New Yorkers out here and how we're all so chatty with each other. :D

That explains a lot.

The Dodgers left way before I was born but I grew up on my mom's stories of when she was a kid, going to Ebbets Field, and how sad she was that she never got to take her own kids.

I hope that irony wasn't lost on everyone.

But, yeah, the least they coulda done was to make the Ebbets Field Apartments look like the ball yard.

I swear, if I had a time machine, I'd go back to the '40s, live in Canarsie or Bensonhurst, sneak into Dodgers games every day, then go home and play stickball or stoopball. :D