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Capitals Lose Game 7, But At Least We Were Interested Again
By Chris Mottram | April 23, 2008
Surely, we’ve been a couple of bandwagon fans over these last couple months, but before you judge, you should know that we grew up on the Washington Capitals.
As kids, our dad used to always grab up the unwanted Caps tickets from his office and take us to the games. The memories of sitting in old Capital Centre are as thick as those we created in Memorial Stadium. We never went to Skins games as kids, I’m not sure why, but I assume it’s because tickets were virtually impossible to come by. And the Bullets were out of the question; our dad hates the NBA, a trait that skipped Jamie but was passed on nicely to me. All-in-all, I think we spent more time sitting in the Centre, watching Peter Bondra light the lamp and praying for Brendan Witt to beat the shit out of someone than we did at all other sporting events. Names like Kelly, Cote and Konowalchuk bring back just as many memories as the likes of Ripken, Ripken and, well, Ripken.
So, after having lost interest in this team, and hockey in general, sometime around high school graduation, it’s nice to care about them again. Sure, it sucks that they lost in Game 7 last night, and sucks ever more that they won’t get to take on the Penguins — a franchise I hated as much as the Cowboys or Yankees growing up. But the last couple months of the season, and this amazing series against the Flyers, helped us care again about a team we once loved.
Hopefully that’s not just my Ovie man-love talking and we’ll be back to root them on again next year. Only this time, maybe we’ll try to care from the opening face-off, instead of waiting until March.
Topics: Alexander Ovechkin, Capitals | 4 Comments »
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:09 PM
yeah, at least jeff carter got hit in the face with a beer bottle….he sarcastically said “classy”. in reality it was classic
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:32 PM
The place you once knew as Memorial Stadium is now a Johns Hopkins satellite campus, but Baltimore welcomes you anyway.
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:54 PM
Wait. The bandwagon’s not dead? Shit. I hate hockey.
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:57 PM
Fact: Two months ago I saw Sergei Federov in a grocery store one block from Kettler. He was decked out in full Caps gear, and no one even noticed him.
If he did that today, it’d be a mob scene.
Also, OFB’s wrap-up post is a beauty.