Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Advice for the playoff-bound (yet another x-post)

These are some thoughts I wanted to jot down in the wake of Tom Luongo’s post over at the AOL Fanhouse.

IF–IF your team wins the Cup (and it is always an IF until the moment the Commish puts the trophy into your captain’s hands):

Cherish that moment. Treat it like it’s purest gold, given to you by whatever powers or forces you worship, and keep it close to your heart forever because you don’t know if or when it will happen again.

Revere the Cup. It’s a holy artifact, sanctified with the blood and sweat and tears of hundreds of players from all over the world, and it deserves your respect.

Win with class, lose with dignity–that lesson was taught to me by (of all people) a Sabres fan. Sure, it feels good to dance on the graves of your perceived enemies and wave your e-peen around for all to see–but all it does is make you look like a classless piece of garbage. The gods favor the worthy, and if your team isn’t judged worthy, then you shake your opponent’s hand, congratulate him on a series well-played, and look ahead to next season. If your team is judged worthy, then you shake your opponent’s hand, congratulate him on a series well-played, and look ahead to the next round or the next season. There’s plenty of crying in hockey, but no whining.

It’s true. You all know that it’s true.

Luck to you all (even the Sabres fans), and I look forward to sparring with you all again next season.

Even the Sabres fans.

5 comments:

Jordi said...

This is wrong - all wrong. What did they do to you!?

The Acid Queen said...

Well, I had anger. Then the 'Canes won, and I had calm--until last night.

Now everything is in balance, which means that some bitchez are in for a hurtin' next season.

;)

Heather B. said...

Now everything is in balance, which means that some bitchez are in for a hurtin' next season.

Ah-ha! I knew the Sabres positivity couldn't last! I knew it! :-)

Seriously, lovely post. Hopefully we all get our chance to enjoy that beautiful Cup some day.

The Acid Queen said...

Sabres positivity? Me?

I would sooner barrack for Osama bin Laden than for the Sabres. You know that. :p

CapsChick said...

See, you need to teach me how to find my zen center. You're much less bitter than I am and my team's been out of it since January. :)

Well, one of my teams has been out...my two others are going strong, at least for now. That probably helps ease the pain a bit.