Vigilante Sports

Recently my wife and I moved from Chicago to Seattle. For a lot of reasons this was a big move, and one of the big ones is sports fandom. I’ve lived in Chicago since 1984, so I was there for the Cubs ’84 playoff collapse, of course the ’85 Bears, early Greg Maddux, all of the failed Cubs’ prospects (Jerome Walton, Brooks Kieschnick, Kerry Wood etc.), even seen a World Series championship (even tough it was on the wrong side of town for my liking). I have also always been a Michigan football fan. And by association, a Big Ten fan. Now we live in the northwest, and we have the Mariners, Seahawks, and Pac 10 football.

I’ve gotta give the Seahawks their due, they did make it to a Super Bowl. And the Mariners have had some success, though not too much recently. But Pac 10 football, yuck! There is USC and then everyone else. Of course USC is good, and fun to watch, and all of that… but as a whole the Pac 10 sucks, and is boring. The Washington Huskies are the local college football team. Ty Willingham is their coach. Nothing could be more unlikable than a Pac 10 team with Ty Willingham as it’s coach. It was bad enough when he was at Notre Dame. At least there’s some interest in Notre Dame.

All that being said, I’m struggling to make my self at home as a sports fan, here in Seattle. I’m sure it won’t be easier when the Bears play the Seahawks next week. One good thing is that this weekend when the Mariners visit the White Sox, I won’t have any confusion about who I’m rooting for. Go Mariners.

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