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Loading ...I swear to Malik, if I hear anything more about how people in North Carolina only like college frickin’ basketball and Neckcar, I am going to KILL SOMEBODY.
ATTN PEOPLE:
I HAVE LIVED IN NORTH CAROLINA FOR TEN YEARS–AND I HATE COLLEGE BASKETBALL AND DESPISE STOCK-CAR RACING.
In a lot of ways, my childhood in North Dakota prepared me for living down here. I was one of four hockey fans in a town of about 1500, and it was a big pain in my ass not being able to follow my team except in boxscores and late Sunday nights on the George Michael Sports Machine (back then, I barracked for the Edmonton Oilers–sue me, they were the first team I ever saw play back in 1980). The big things were basketball and racin’, and I loathed them back then, too.
The loathing only deepens every time some know-nothing from north of the Mason-Dixon line (or, more commonly, north of the 49th Parallel) shoots off his ign’ant mouth and paints us all as a bunch of terbacky-chawin’ sibling-boffin’ moonshinin’ rednecks that don’t know from anything other than Neckcar or basketball. It just makes me so angry, because those blanket statements are borne of nothing other than ignorance and laziness–and those who know me know that those are two things that really drive me up the wall. That’s like saying that (for example) all Canucks fans are knuckle-dragging low-IQ thugs because of a handful of (usually drunk) neanderthals that riot whenever the Canucks lose in the playoffs, when anyone with half a clue and the desire to do even the tiniest bit of work can look and plainly see that such is not the case.
Laziness in reporting just pisses me off. No, not everybody is that way–I realize that–but unfortunately there are enough of “the right people” (Bristol, random Toronto/Montreal/Winnipeg/Detroit/wherever mediots, etc.) that are engaged in that kind of laziness that the perception has become the reality. I’m sick of it. I’m tired of it. I’m not going to put up with it.
In other news:
Poor Andy was claimed off waivers by the Columbus Blue Jackets today. From one team I hate to another–that poor sod, he just can’t catch a break can he?
I second the motion. I have lived in NE Tennessee for almost eight years now. I am sufficiently close to Bristol, TN to be irritated by the NASCAR fans that drive 33.5 MPH on the interstate (55-70 MPH speed limits). My wife was born in Elizabethton, TN and feels the same way too. I wasn’t even a fan of sports at all until she introduced me to hockey. We both love hockey, despise racing and basketball in general, and are bored to tears with baseball. She hates football and I could take it or leave it myself. There just isn’t another sport that compares to hockey. And calling NASCAR a sport is stretching it. Ooooo, it gets hot in those cars and they get dehydrated; oh nooooo.
So, do I get an invite to the lynchin’?
I hate NASCAR, and I now live in a region (Bluefield, VA/WV) that *should* make the media shut up about Raleigh being a NASCAR hotbed. Bluefield makes Raleigh look like NOTHING in that regard.
When it comes to basketball, I like the college variety…of course it helps that I grew up a fan of UNC AND was named after “Carolina”.
And I can totally relate to Bryant (I’m only an hour away from Bristol) AND you, Camille, on being one of only four or five hockey fans in a region where the big sports are the aforementioned NASCAR and, at least in Bluefield’s case, high school football. Hell, you wanna know how huge HS football is around here? The biggest sports highlight show in the region consists of practically nothing but HS football clips. That’s it. When I saw the ad for that sucker a week or two ago, I said out loud to myself…
“What a JOKE!! If you’re going call your show a sports one, you gotta have more than FREAKIN’ HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL!!!”
And at risk of sounding ignorant, what is the big-butt appeal of HS football anyway? When my family and I went to K&W Cafeteria at the nearby mall this past Friday, I swear we were the only ones in line not going to “the big game at Graham High”. Oh well…I know my family and I can’t be the only ones. At least, I hope we’re not…at least everyone in Bluefield likes one of my two favorite NFL teams in the Steelers (the other being the Panthers).
Anyhoo, sign moi up for the lynching.
Hey now! I’m with you on basketball and car racing - but what do you have against the Blue Jackets? Is it that the Whale almost became the Blue Jackets before they became the Canes or is it the whole over-expansion thing?