Perhaps I am just looking for a shiny ring to rest my Bay Area hat on since the Sharks loss to the Preds last night tempers my enthusiasm, it sure as hell isn’t the dumpster fire of the Niners, and we’ll have to see how the Giants fair in the long run, but surely my bandwagonning would have to justified by the performance of a knee-injured, fresh-off-the-pine Steph Curry, right? Let’s say your alien ship landed last night and for whatever reason your people needed to learn about the basketballs, watching that game last night is there any way to not have been impressed? The reason why I really enjoy what the Warriors do really comes down to their depth chart with which they had managed to still stay 2-1 over Rip City in the series, but despite how enjoyable find the team dynamics of the Warriors, it is impossible to not be a little impressed when it turns out that your opponent happens to have a secret weapon.
Curry may be a sure thing for MVP later this week, but he might have done just enough to garner him a unanimous vote.
If for no other reason, seeing this expression on Paul Allen’s face, along with just about everyone else in Portland, as priceless.
I apologize to everyone for my double dose of lesser sports and Northern California love affair. It’s my greatest weakness…. Northern California sports and booze, I guess
Are Warrior fans a more recent advent than Seahawk fans?
That’s tough on account of the way SEA was such a tough defensive team when they entered the NFL in 2012. I don’t think anyone seriously said the SB Champion Seahawks weren’t a legit championship team. GS, on the other hand, is playing in a ‘softer’ NBA and, even while they set records, you have to admit that the game is a lot more finesse than the days of, for example, the Bad Boy Pistons.
I’m not knocking GS one way or another — their D is solid and that offense is unreal (like, in JV Football, Oregon vs Whatever Cupcake Game They Open With) — but not sure how much that relates to their fans. The 12th Man’s (courtesy of TAMU) got to burst on the scene with an objectively great team. GS fans, on the other hand, are coming on with a team that is great for the period in which they play (not that there is anything wrong with that).
Okay, so Blax did a really nice job of parlaying that with thoughtful reflection.
My answer: Oh, most definitely!
“when they entered the NFL in 2012”
http://history.seahawks.com/photos/1976_Testerman.jpg
For the core group I don’t think so. They’ve had some seriously loyal fans for a really long time. Remember that series against Dallas when they were an 8 seed that beat a 1 seed? That place was going off.
I feel the same thing about Portland. They have amazing fans year in and year out. My favorite part about watching these 2 teams play at home is they don’t have to resort to obnoxious stadium announcers screaming “Threeeeeeeeee!!” At you or telling the crowd when to chant for the defense.
These fans get it.
And not once well they play that horrific “Everybody clap your hands” shit.
That shit is abomination and I blame Mark Cuban for that.
Indeed, it is a good time to be a fellow Warriors fan. However, I did snort at your so-very-Bay-Area reference of the Bay Area as “Northern” California.
VERY NoCal!
I just really really want the cavs to win. :/
I want to root for Cleveland teams, but the most famous Cleveland song, in the most Cleveland movie is about how the river in their city burned
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDJKpnqTsgk
I want the Cavs to lose just so we can up the power of the Cleveland Curse. Like, you can get the best basketball player in the world to handpick his team (luxury tax be damned) and that still isn’t enough to get over the detriment of being on a team located in Cleveland.
If there is one blue-collar, deserving, suffering, committed fan base in American sports, it’s the Bay Area.
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I like this one because, in the small version, it looks like the lighter fluid is just this guy peeing public.
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Impressive stream. Working prostate. 10/10, would bang.
That cracked me up.
Though this one just epitomizes sports fan celebrating
http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site568/2015/0612/20150612__OAK-FANRIOT-0613-10~1.JPG
Good God almighty! That killed him!
Really? Now I feel like that was a tasteless thing to link. In fact, its the exact reason I didn’t post this:
Naw, just severe burns.
I always thought of my fellow Raiders fans as more of an “orange-collar” type.
http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/roanoke.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/9/71/971571fb-e6eb-53f7-a081-2fb650758f8e/5567a97414c9d.image.jpg
That’s why they hate the Broncos. The team colors are the things Raiders fans see on a daily basis; Blue skies and prison jumpsuit orange.
Unless they’re in PC or AdSeg. Then it’s just orange and grey.
Hey! You get the screen covered for one hour a day!
What did people think was going to happen if he played? I mean seriously, he’s been killing it for the last 3+ seasons. Now that the rest of the team can actually play defense, they’re finally going places.
At this point, as long as LeBron loses, I could care less about the NBA.
Delly > Curry
Pad see ew > curry.
deli > curry
http://www.shopbelmontmarket.com/wp-content/uploads/page_img_deli_01.jpg
Fun Fact: Deli is a modern terminology. Originally sandwiches were large chunks of hot meat, but some butcher in California decided that they needed to be thinner and colder. These new cold cuts were further bastardized by bostonians who used the term Cal-Cuttah’s as a slur. And everyone knows Cal-Cuttahs are today’s New Deli’s.
This sounds just crazy enough to be true!
Bostonians call fried chicken “Dahkies Deelight”.
“Fahkin’ asshole. Tawmmy and Sinahhhd, I can’t fahkin bulieve dey nahmed thaht cunt afta that otha cunt, and me we all like legs and thaghs when we go to the Colona. We ah nawt tha racists. It tha dahkies that won’t eat tha white meat. Did ya know that Sinahhhd’s fatha won’t let ha into the house anyma. Not afta she showed just how much she lahks the dahk meat. Nah whaaat ah mean.”
-Southie Sully69
I will have to retry all these foods to make sure any of my opinions is sound.
That was a hell of a finish to last night’s game.
Provided he can stay healthy, the head to head between Curry and Lilliard should be must DVR TV
For years to come
He is the RG3 of point guards! Thankfully Kerr > Shanahan
I also had a happy ending.
Since about 1984, the only championship team not to win more than one title was the Mavs. It’s kind of crazy. Lakers (8), Bulls (6), Spurs (5), Celtics (3), Pistons (3), Heat (3), Rockets (2) since ’84 (not including the Warriors). It is a foregone conclusion that the Warriors win this year, right? I am not complaining, since I am not a big NBA fan and the games start past my bedtime, but the lack of parity is impressive.
Well, a number of those were non-consecutive, so I’m not sure it’s a foregone conclusion for THIS year. But I sure as hell am not putting money down on Steph Curry retiring with only one ring.
I don’t consider myself part of Rip City, so I’m all for Curry destroying them in the playoffs. I’m just disappointed that I can’t make it to see him do this at the Rose Garden.