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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 2389615, member: 181"] Thanks for the thread. I really appreciate the variety of perspectives & histories, especially from posters who sometimes annoy me, including those I Ignore. I'm glad I showed Ignored content. It's good to feel a bond & know we want much the same thing. My history goes back to Ed Slomcenski & Toby Kimball. I have the latter's scratchy autograph. In those days, I accompanied my dad and 2 other taciturn men out to the Field House, pre-I-84, on school nights. I got to tear the brightly colored season tickets out of their booklets. Saw Dave Bing & Dr. J. Bar none, this is my most powerful father-son connection. It's the WHY that was asked. At this point, I have jettisoned most major sports fandom - better things to do with my time. Pro seasons begin with round two of the playoffs, and even then I really just want to see the game played well. I used to follow all major sports majorly and have some pretty good ticket stubs to show for it. I follow UConn Men's Basketball 12 months a year. For that, I blame all of you collectively. Because of so many competing interests, I get frustrated when I see lousy basketball being played. But I plan my days and watch the games, and I look to see team development from day one until the season ends. Last year I looked for the 'lesson' within the recognition that I was paying close attention to a bad team at a time on my life when I'm highly focused on letting go of what doesn't work and increasing what does. It reminded me of times that I accepted unpleasant family members as a 'gift' of sorts because it's otherwise so easy to eliminate or reduce the presence of difficult people from my life. Rambling now, but you get the idea. I'm a lifer. I don't want the good times to end. Evert year, I want to see a team that comes together and plays well, protects the ball, makes defensive stops, hits its free throws, and makes our little state proud for the same silly reasons that it does so for bigger states that might not offer as much as where I was raised & now live. [/QUOTE]

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