Two out of three ain't bad, right?
I am a huge Angels of Anaheim fan. Have been since I was a kid in the mid-seventies. Grew up around Los Angeles Dodgers season tickets my aunt had, and often went to Dodgers games as a result, but I never felt a part of the Dodgers' crowd. I guess it was something about Los Angeles. I was not fond of living there. I felt I related more with the Angels. The underdogs. The team of Orange County and the Inland Empire. Then, when my folks moved out of the Los Angeles concrete jungle, to the Inland Empire, I was finally able to share my love of the Angels with other Anaheim fans.
Yesterday, my beloved Angels won their series against Boston in a dramatic comeback in game three to complete a sweep, and are now on their way to the League Championship Series to face New York (besides the Dodgers, the other team I love to hate).
I have a lot of family in the State of Arkansas, therefore I am a huge Razorbacks fan. I grew up around hog-hats and Razorback talk. I can still remember when Arkansas dominated the Southwest Conference, and moved to the SEC in search of real competition. Their last year in the SWC, after saying that the Texas teams were no competition, resulted every team in the conference beating the Hogs in beat-down fashion that year. Since then, it has been a rough ride in the Southeastern Conference. This year, after winning their first game against a nobody, Arkansas suffered losses against Georgia and Alabama. Then, dominated Texas A&M a week ago, and beat handidly Auburn last Saturday. Best of all, the quarterback is a sophomore, and the team is young, well coached, and up and coming.
The win on Saturday against Auburn, I believe, is the first step towards having a very good season, and setting up a championship run next year.
Ken Stabler and George Blanda were still on the Oakland Raiders when I became a fan. It seemed logical. My father was a Niners fan, and Dad liked the Chiefs. What better team to pick as a kid to get both of them all tethered up? Then, when the Raiders moved to Los Angeles, I became an even bigger fan, attending a few games with friends. I later got to meet Napolean McCallum shortly after I got out of the Navy, and got to talk to him on a regular basis. He sent me an autographed picture of him one year (after I had asked), and I still have the autograph from the day I first met him. At that point, my Raiders fanship was complete.
Yesterday the Raiders got slaughtered by the Giants, and are no doubt the worst team in football. I heard a commentator say today that Jamarcus Russell is so bad that even Ryan Leaf thinks he sucks. I still wore my Raiders hard hat today on job sites, and I am a fan until the day I die, but I would really like to see the Raiders get their collective stuff together, and quit playing like a second-rate pee wee team.
Well, two out of three over the weekend ain't bad, right?
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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