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In which I post about team sports non-disparagingly.

I work at Boston University; their men's hockey team won the NCAA Championship in what I am told is quite dramatic fashion, and had a ticker-tape parade yesterday. Fortunately, none of our students skipped class, and no drunk or lost revellers came into the school to disrupt our day, so it all went well; today all the grass is littered festively with red-white-and-blue ticker tape, and we're all discussing whether or not the Athletic Director will wear his T-shirt from the parade just this week or all next week too.

I was going to snark about it (the whole sports culture in the US, bla bla) but, considering the above lack of strife associated with their celebration, and considering that these young men did achieve something impressive, maybe this time I don't need to. I mean, it's not like they'd know I did, or care what some fat little woman thinks if they did know. But I would. Maybe failing to sneer at this is not some capitulation to all the people who've told me that sports are normal and healthy and correct while my own hobbies are pathological. Or maybe I'm just in too good of a mood (and no, dear Universe, this is not a challenge to change that!)

I do reserve the right to tease my coworker if he shows up in his parade T-shirt, though.

Date: 2009-04-15 05:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] browngirl.livejournal.com
But it's a good release, too -- in a world of grey areas, it can be very comforting to have black-and-white things to hold on to (our team is great, yay! Boo on the other team, I want them to lose!).

*nod* This is a very good point. And the metrics are both detailed and clear, not murky.

It's a victory, and it may be a minor thing, but there is a lot of positivity, and I love that you see the world that way and share that with me (and others on LJ) often.

*blush* Thanks. :) I try.

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