And another thing about this “great” basketball team and the teams it plays….all fucking white. Well, plus a Native American. It’s tuff to take a team that seriously if they’re all white, isn’t it? There’s nothing intimidating about watching a team full of white guys walk into a gym. Back in the day when I was gunning the rock in the NND, if the other team started ONE white guy you’d think “boy, he must be the fucking shit.” If they started two, you were like “oh, they’re out of black guys, this team must b l o w.” Any other white guys, you’re looking over at the bench for Gene Hackman for fuck’s sake. And it was such an insular world, time out from games to congratulate 1000 points scorers et al, patting themselves on the back. I’m not saying some of them can’t play, but again, it’s tuff to take a game too seriously a team has fewer black guys than the Dave Matthews Band, isn’t it?
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Today's Theme: Whites in Basketball
As I mentioned HERE, not very scary.
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2 comments:
sounds about right...like the time when 12 white marietta college basketball players left the locker room to warm up against the 15th ranked xavier musketeers? the eruption of laughter from 10,000 fans as we started our layup lines was one of the more humiliating experiences of my life (well, that and losing the game by 50+).
ah yes, the Marietta Cornish Game Hens!! ;)
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