:: A chance for greatness ::
At the risk of having my Canadian citizenship revoked, I admit that I cared very little for today's Grey Cup between the Calgary Stampeders and the Montreal Alouettes. I tried hard to care, I really did, but I couldn't do it. Unlike some sports and leagues (baseball, NFL), I can't watch a complete game unless I have a vested interest in at least of the teams, or a player on one of the teams (I watched, for example, nearly an entire Minnesota Wild game the other game on TSN2 simply because I knew the rookie right winger). And the Stampeders/Allouettes just wasn't doing it for me.
Instead, I spent my day running errands, going for lunch with a friend and helping my dad put up the Christmas lights. In fact, I didn't even know what time the game started, and I didn't plop down on the couch and turn on the TV until the game was already well into the second quarter.
Eventually though, I found myself drawn to the game, not so much because I cared who won (because I didn't), but because the game was relatively close. And when the score is close in a meaningful game - championship or otherwise - I'll usually watch, for the simple reason that I don't want to miss some amazing moment that goes down in sports history.
Nobody wants to be the guy who missed the Hail Mary pass or the Music City Miracle.
Granted, those things rarely happen, but there's been more than a few sports moments I've missed or can't remember, and as a pretty big sports fan, that bugs me. If the Canucks ever make it to the Stanley Cup finals, for example, I won't even leave the couch, just to ensure I don't miss something great.
So that's why I watched the game on Sunday. And although there wasn't much in the way of historic moments, there was a somewhat dramatic 50-yard field goal by Calgary's Sandro DeAngelis (his fifth of the game!) that iced it for the Stamps.
And, of course, I missed it.
I was in the garage, grabbing myself a Diet Coke.
That aside, I'll leave you with these two Grey Cup moments:
The first came in a text message from Jenna, who was watching the game with her family. They were picking squares, and her mom won the first quarter:
"My mom just won the first. She's a bitch."
Ouch.
And then this from my dad, after TSN showed a clip of Montreal's dreadlocked Larry Taylor making two TD returns in last week's Eastern Final against Edmonton:
"Of course he's fast. He's probably used to running from the cops."
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