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Posted by: Jeff Winget on December 10th, 2011
The author's views are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of the Utah Jazz.I’m a huge sports fan. I probably should have been more candid about this with my wife while we were dating, but I was too twitterpated to think of anything other than her at the time. Ten years later, she definitely knows about my obsession and has learned to deal with it, but I still feel a twinge of guilt that I wasn’t more honest with her from the beginning.
Now that I have that confession out of the way, I have another one that is actually directly related to the Jazz, the lockout, and the NBA:
I love sports, but I really don’t like the business end of it.
When I auditioned for Jazzbots a couple of years ago, I was so excited to write about basketball. I enjoyed doing game reviews, talking about individual players and performances, starting a series of posts about the annual Florida road trip, and raging about 4th quarter collapses. What I hadn’t counted on was a lockout that would separate me from my basketball (and my muse) for 7+ months. Since the lockout began, I’ve been reluctant to write because of the lack of actual basketball to write about. I’m sorry for my absence and pledge to do better.
In a couple of short weeks, the NBA will resume play, and we will all get to watch our beloved Jazz take on the HATED Lakers in LA right after Christmas. I know for a lot of fans, the NBA has a ways to go to earn back the respect and fandom that it has lost during the lockout.
I’m not really one of those fans.
Since I don’t care for the nuts and bolts of it very much, I’m just excited to watch basketball again. I’m excited to come home from work, plop my 3-year-old son on my lap, crack open a Pepsi Max (my cold beverage of choice), watch the game, and scream either praises or obscenities at the TV. It’s basketball season, and I couldn’t be happier.
Lockout be damned. Game on.
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I like how it took the lockout being over to make a “Jazzbot” to come back.
It is pretty sad, I know.
Haha.
My wife is still trying to deal with my Jazz Fanship.
As much as she doesn’t like it she knows when the first games are and that they will soon be here.
Lets get the season started!
ps. Really glad Watson is coming back
I’m not married, but I almost want my wife if/when I do get married to either be a Jazz fan, or just be one of those women that is supportive to her man’s teams. Also being a Saints fan, I’m not going to find a woman who is both a Jazz fan and a Saints fan. Those are an odd mix to be fans of.
I was in the same boat. So good to be talking basketball again, right? Great post!