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Jazz Beats the Blues
Posted by: Annie Whittaker Jazzbot Blogger on January 3rd, 2011
The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of the Utah Jazz.One of the best things about the NBA and more specifically the Jazz is that they give me a gleam of hope through the long winters. The basketball season is perfect medicine for someone who cheers the winter solstice like I do. Why do I celebrate this solstice like a Pagan-without-abandon? Because it’s on the way up from here baby! With each passing freezing, dark at 4pm day, I know that a little more sun is shining each time.
Think about it, the NBA pre-season starts during the fall when everything is lovely outside, we all feel abundant in our harvesting whether figuratively or literally, and to get to finally watch some (albeit terrible) NBA basketball is an added bonus.
Then the winter comes.
And luckily, we are deep enough in the meat of the season that games matter. They’re good enough to have to turn down invitations for other things so as not to miss them, and we can pretend that we would turn things down to watch the games if we had to even though we probably don’t have that active a social schedule. But at least we feel like we do.
The point is, the other day I was getting really tired of the weather, the season, etc. when I realized that all I have to do is make watching the Jazz my entire life (who doesn’t already?) and when I take a breath between the end of the season and the beginning of the playoffs, it will be spring! Hope springs eternal again!!! So go Jazz, my mental health depends upon it.
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I like your thinking. And the Finals are a week before the official first day of summer. Let’s hope the Jazz give us a good summer…
I know EXACTLY where you’re coming from!
I hate winter…
3 things I hate more than anything.
1. Lakers
2. Stupid Commericials
3. Winter
I love how the NBA schedule plays out, helps me survive these horrible cache valley winters (they go from october to april, yes it was still snowing in april last year up here) and goes right through school too. Perfect.
As I sat recently in my sweats and my new Christmas sweater under my new UofU throw, I was explaining to my son that the days were longer now and spring was just around the corner. Of course he laughed and pointed out how nice it is where the Lakers play. About the only thing we could agree on was how much we enjoy coming home and watching Jazz games in a warm house in the winter when it is freeing and dark outside. Thanks for the post Annie.
Totally agree Annie. Born and raised in the south, it’s all I can do to stay sane in these winters…plus the fact that I freeze all day at my job. Thank goodness for the Jazz; sometimes all that gets me through the day is knowing that soon, I’ll be curled up on the couch under a bunch of blankets, watching the game, and having a blast (yes, even if they lose).
That is an awfully astounding column you’ve posted.Thanks a lot for that a fantastically amazing post!
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Wow, even the spammers hate winter. I hope the Jazz warm up soon, its getting hard to take, the way they are playing.