I mean I love sports. Not to play, but to watch and cheer on. Which is kind of funny considering I didn’t grow up in a house with sports; neither my Dad or my brother ever watched it on TV.
My first encounter with professional sports was baseball. It was 1992, when the Blue Jays won the World Series, and then again in 1993. A few years later, I started working in a restaurant with giant hockey fans. A couple years after that in 1998, my Mom totally got into soccer, as did I…but only on a World level, like the World and Euro Cups. Crazy.
Slowly, I picked up tennis. And dropped baseball. And finally last year, became interested in American football.
So you could say that I’m now a bit of a sports nut. But it’s not easy. In a city that has a baseball, basketball (neither of which I watch), hockey (with a team that hasn’t made the playoffs in a LONG time), and a football team that belongs in the CFL, it doesn’t seem like we have a lot of winning teams to cheer for. I know, I know, a loyal fan slogs through the bad years along with the good, but at least give us SOMEthing (like a playoff run!).
Here’s hoping that this is the year where we get to bring something home.
Carlton!
One of the items on my bucket list is to go to one of the All-Star weekends for the NHL. Not because I want to see the hockey players, but because I want to see the mascots. I LOVE the mascots. I think that it’s hilarious that people dress up in a giant plush costume and either pump up or taunt a crowd.
How awesome would it be to watch a mock hockey game played by mascots? In any sport? I need to make that happen.
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