My Introduction

I have been an avid sports fan since the 4th grade. I still remember sitting in my room and watching my first entire football game. I know it was the San Francisco 49ers playing, who knows if they won or lost or who they were even playing. The image still resides within me though and I am proud to say I've sat through many more 49ers games since then. But it was that first game that opened the door for me, I started watching baseball and basketball after that too and now I am even contemplating introducing myself to hockey. (I know, what am I thinking?)

Getting back to the beginning, it was hard for me to find time to watch sports as a child because there were only so many televisions in my house and nobody else in my family embraced sports with the same enthusiasm that I did. Enthusiasm being completely the wrong word to describe how the rest of my family felt about sports, something more along the lines of contempt would aptly cover it. Regardless, I traded favors (taking out the garbage, washing the dishes and such) to get more time in front of the boob tube to indulge in my new obsession. (There was a San Francisco Giants game once that went into the 12th inning and forced me to barter much of the rest of my television time for the week to my brother, it was well worth it though, they won in walk-off fashion. Exhilarating.)

Find time I did though and as I grew older useless sports trivia began filling up much of my brain. Every now and then I wonder how I can remember Garrison Hearst's 90+ yard run in overtime to win a game for the 49ers and his subsequent use of an oxygen mask on the sideline afterwards, but absolutely nothing I heard (I say heard, because I did not learn a single thing) in my Calculus class will stick. Eventually I realize how thankful I am for that though, this seemingly useless knowledge of sports I posses will do me much more good in my lifetime than being able to find the radius of a pie (I realize that find the radius of a pie isn't part of Calculus, but I'm just making the point that math is dumb). If I were to try and have a conversation with some of my guy friends we wouldn't talk about square roots and theorems, we'd talk about sports. Plain and simple.

So, the point of all of this? I love sports. Everything about them. The majesty, the history, the statistics and the unforgettable moments both good and bad (Game 4 of the Kings/Lakers Western Conference Finals in '02 = debilitating, the 24 point comeback by the 49ers over the N.Y. Giants in the Wild Card game of the '02 playoffs = amazing) This blog will chronicle my love of the games, cover 3 (possibly 4) major sports and give myself something to do over summer break. So read and enjoy. Oh and if you're a Lakers/Dodgers (I don't really hate any football teams though I dislike the Packers, Rams, Giants, Seahawks, Cardinals, oh and especially the Cowboys) you may not always love this blog.

Next up...Free Agency in the NBA