Hockey.
The riots in Vancouver make me so sad. It's such a great city, such a great team, such a great fanbase, and a few jackasses are making all of it look bad. But it IS just a few jackasses, and shouldn't reflect back on the team or city at all.
I'm from Detroit, dammit, I should know.
Thinking about it makes me also think about the riots at Michigan State when I was a student there. There were a few of them, but the biggest was in late March of 1999 after the basketball team got knocked out of the NCAA Final Four. It was all over the news, and for years after, when people learned I was a student then, they asked if I'd rioted, what I'd done that night, what it was life. And every time, I had to skirt around the question, say I didn't notice or whatever. It usually led to more questions.
Because - how does one say that she wasn't in town that weekend because her dad died the same day as the riot? It's not normal conversation.
Hockey always makes me think of my dad.
I'm from Detroit, dammit, I should know.
Thinking about it makes me also think about the riots at Michigan State when I was a student there. There were a few of them, but the biggest was in late March of 1999 after the basketball team got knocked out of the NCAA Final Four. It was all over the news, and for years after, when people learned I was a student then, they asked if I'd rioted, what I'd done that night, what it was life. And every time, I had to skirt around the question, say I didn't notice or whatever. It usually led to more questions.
Because - how does one say that she wasn't in town that weekend because her dad died the same day as the riot? It's not normal conversation.
Hockey always makes me think of my dad.