| 07 May 2010
To all avid Favre Dollar Footlong readers out there; sorry for the hiatus. It wasn't that I didn't want to write or had other important things to do, it was actually that was gone from last Thursday until Wednesday.
Favre Dollar Footlongs is moving! Wait, what, where, who. Don't get all worried yet, the site is staying, while I am relocating. In exactly one month from today I will be living in Hartford, CT. New job, new opportunities.
While I was in Hartford over the weekend, apartment hunting and having my LDP day at Aetna, I got to meet up with my friend Aaron Torres from Aaron Torres Sports. He picked me up from my hotel and we went over to his friends place to watch the Cavs/Celtics game and the Mosley/Mayweather fight. You can't really ask for much more with two great sporting events on one night.
We get to the apartment about 8:00pm, right when the basketball game was starting. There were a few people outside and a couple inside. We were really the only ones watching the game. About an hour later a few people started to join us. Of course being sports writers, Aaron and I analyze everything and think we know everything. We also understand we're opinionated, but we still feel like we're unbiased.
This was my first time up in the North East. I knew I'd have a lot of Celtics fans around me, actually I thought I'd be the only Cavs fan. I was prepared though. Every sports fan has their arsenal of arguments in the back of their brain ready to unload on anyone who goes against them. The few people who joined us originally were pretty cool to talk with. There were the typical arguments that LeBron James isn't the best player in the game that I had to shoot down quickly, but other then that they knew their stuff. About thirty minutes later things changed a little.
The second half of the game came around and the entire couch was full. The Celtics were winning and I started to hear the chit chat about how this Celtics team was better then the Cavaliers and that the Cleveland was overrated. Pretty much all your typical arguments. I never realized how much hating went on just by traveling to a new area.
Hating is a part of sports though. No matter how much I think that we shouldn't hate, I then think about it and realize it's a good thing. Hate brings debate and argument; things that sports are all about. It's our competitive nature to debate about sports and hating just makes it feel much more important.
After seeing what I was getting myself into, I also started to realize that I probably gave off the some aura. If any of Aaron's friends thought that then they were probably right, but I don't care. It's kind of in my nature as a sports fanatic to believe that I know more or better than most people about sports and that my opinion is more correct. I guess I'm not just hating on teams, but hating on others too.
I'm moving to start a new career in exactly one month and at least I know what to expect now. I'll be the fan who is cheering for the Steelers, Penn State, Penguins, or Duke that everyone will disagree with and give the awkward eye to at the bar. Then again, I'll be returning the favor and defending every bit of cheering that comes out of me.
I love that about sports. I may hate what you're saying, but if you can back it up, then I'll respect you.
