Sports Talk and Thanksgiving Travel-Friday
A few nuggets of sports before I continue the Thanksgiving tale. I think probably all of you but myself have ceased to care about the thanksgiving journey by now, but sometimes, I gotta do things for me.
So I hope not to jinx anything, but the Iggles are kinda doing their thing. Winning out would mean winning the NFC East. I guess I wasn't paying close enough attention to how everything else was shaping up... the way our record was looking at some point, I dind't think we had a shot even at post season play. I think maybe I've been watching too much college football and I'm too used to title shots being essentially one-and-done.
Speaking of college sports, despite a 7-2 record, USF Basketball is essentially in shambles, or at least I'm led to believe. I we won one game in conference last year, and in fact won as many games all last year as we have so far this year (we haven't entered conference play yet). But you know what? I won't say I won't care, but I care relatively little. I love my Bulls football so much both because football's my favorite sport and because I never had a college football team I had attached myself to. In basketball, however, I already had a team and a half--UMBC, of course, and I root for the Turtles too. so USF basketball's been considerably more out-of-sight, out-of-mind.
Now then, Friday: Claymont, DE at the 'rents new homestead. It being the Friday after Thanksgiving, naturally we had to get up and head down to downtown Wilmington for the Jaycees' Christmas Parade. we got there a little late and were crossing over Market Street just as the front of the parade was approaching. We headed to the other side of Rodney Square to go catch the rest, figuring we hadn't missed AI yet, because, well, we would have heard them coming... Well apparently, we were mistaken--at the time when we were listening for them, they were at the turn (the parade is 1 block wide by 8 or 9 blocks long, so they were making the turn and behind the buildings from us) until Megan turned around and was like "isn't that y'all?" It was, and naturally the two AI band alums of the group (me and my little brother) broke into full sprint to catch up. WE looked and sounded good, as always, and I got to see Rich and Lindsay, both of whom were in the band when I was (Rich class of '98, Lindsay '01) and are currently on staff at AI, as Asst. Director and Band Front Advisor, respectively.
Here's my recount from a few years ago on Wilmington's delightfully ghetto parade: http://littledrummrboy.livejournal.com/509487.html
At any rate, I'm gonna have to make Friday a two-parter cuz the workday's practically over and I ain't finna stay past 5 today!
So I hope not to jinx anything, but the Iggles are kinda doing their thing. Winning out would mean winning the NFC East. I guess I wasn't paying close enough attention to how everything else was shaping up... the way our record was looking at some point, I dind't think we had a shot even at post season play. I think maybe I've been watching too much college football and I'm too used to title shots being essentially one-and-done.
Speaking of college sports, despite a 7-2 record, USF Basketball is essentially in shambles, or at least I'm led to believe. I we won one game in conference last year, and in fact won as many games all last year as we have so far this year (we haven't entered conference play yet). But you know what? I won't say I won't care, but I care relatively little. I love my Bulls football so much both because football's my favorite sport and because I never had a college football team I had attached myself to. In basketball, however, I already had a team and a half--UMBC, of course, and I root for the Turtles too. so USF basketball's been considerably more out-of-sight, out-of-mind.
Now then, Friday: Claymont, DE at the 'rents new homestead. It being the Friday after Thanksgiving, naturally we had to get up and head down to downtown Wilmington for the Jaycees' Christmas Parade. we got there a little late and were crossing over Market Street just as the front of the parade was approaching. We headed to the other side of Rodney Square to go catch the rest, figuring we hadn't missed AI yet, because, well, we would have heard them coming... Well apparently, we were mistaken--at the time when we were listening for them, they were at the turn (the parade is 1 block wide by 8 or 9 blocks long, so they were making the turn and behind the buildings from us) until Megan turned around and was like "isn't that y'all?" It was, and naturally the two AI band alums of the group (me and my little brother) broke into full sprint to catch up. WE looked and sounded good, as always, and I got to see Rich and Lindsay, both of whom were in the band when I was (Rich class of '98, Lindsay '01) and are currently on staff at AI, as Asst. Director and Band Front Advisor, respectively.
Here's my recount from a few years ago on Wilmington's delightfully ghetto parade: http://littledrummrboy.livejournal.com/509487.html
At any rate, I'm gonna have to make Friday a two-parter cuz the workday's practically over and I ain't finna stay past 5 today!