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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 2447121, member: 181"] Nice answer, much appreciated. Not sure what words I wrote that conveyed the impression you've got of me. Even when I wax about better things I could do with my time, I follow this team 12 months a year. The games can be painful and some posters insufferable, but I forged a bond going to the Field House with my dad in the early 60's and that's not changing, even as things can seem perilous since the breakdown of OBE,especially since last season. For context, I maxed out at 42 trips to Fenway one summer, but pretty much gave up on baseball before 2004, except now to watch beautiful defense & pitching in the post-season. I semi-cherish my set of Super Bowl XXI high ball glasses and savor all 4 Giants titles, but really like how my Sundays have been free for mild weather family activities until after the first playoff weekend whenever the Giants suck. NBA season doesn't really start until it's down to 8 teams, and then it competes with mild weather & lengthening days, but I perked up when the Garnett-Pierce-Ray Celtics reawakened everything going back to Red Auerbach's victory cigars. Before parenting took precedent, I worked for a company that gave me tickets to the legendary 80's Islanders Tuesday night games, and have seen Islanders, Rangers & Devil's Stanley Cup games, but have never really cared about hockey except a bit of Espo & Orr years growing up. My parents met at Pitt, so Tony Dorsett & Dan Marino captured my peak interest, and I always knew from father and uncle that UConn would need football longterm. With me living in New York, my dad died in '97, so he never got to see any NCs & I never picked up on UConn football. Now I can walk to the Yale Bowl, but I've only gone in twice I stopped filling out brackets when I shifted to a simple yes-no focus around whether UConn would win each year or not, and last year was my first ever experience with sitting out March Madness the first two weekends and just watching YouTube highlights at the end of the day. I caved for one semi and the finals. I watch UConn Women's Basketball about a half dozen times a year now, used to be more. So that's a portrait of a sports fan's *shifted* interest. More than anything, I want to see well-placed UConn Men's Basketball. I also want what I get on The Boneyard when well-placed basketball (or genuine hopefulness) is on the menu. What I mostly get from your thoughtful reply is the notion that love's opposite isn't hatred, but indifference. Again, thanks. [/QUOTE]

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