A little off-topic

I had the itch to blog, but there's been no change in my pharmacy school adventure, so I'm going to talk about the latest bandwagon hometown heroes in Denver - the Nuggets.

I've been rooting hard for this team since they acquired Chauncey Billups. I love the Nuggets, and basketball might be my favorite sport to watch. Sadly, Denver is a one-sport team. Two years ago, the Rockies went to the World Series, and by the time they made it that far, the bandwagon was enormous. What people never talk about is that the Rockies were near the top of their division all year, won 92 games, and finished the regular season winning 13 of 14 games. It wasn't until about number 10 of those wins that anyone even noticed. But by the time Rocktober rolled around, everyone was a "hard core Rockies fan." Then when the Red Sox scored 6 runs in the third inning of game 3, suddenly it was all over and they were the same old Rockies that had let us down for so many years. Even though that wasn't true. I mean, it was the freakin' World Series! What Rockies team in the past even sniffed something that awesome?

I'm off the already off-topic topic. My point is that our fans are so fair-weather for any sport but football. Even in the midst of losing Jay Cutler, a lot of Broncos fans honestly believe that (1) they're better off without him and (2) the Broncos have any kind of a chance to make the playoffs this year. Ridiculous. Meanwhile, the Nuggets are in the midst of their best season in team history - ABA included - and only now can we start talking about them. On the day the Nuggets clinched the Northwest Division, the Rockies had won something like three games in a row. But the only topic of conversation on sports talk radio was Jay Cutler. This was some 10 days after he was traded to the Bears. Even after the Nuggies took it to the Hornets in round 1, no one seemed to notice. The record-tying 58-point road win in New Orleans wasn't even nationally televised. It drives me crazy that now, all of a sudden, the Nuggets are worthy of discussion. People, they've been this good all year. Why do they have to come within 2 points of sweeping the Mavericks for anyone to notice? Where were you people all year long?

Well, I'm glad I got that off my chest. Now let's go watch them destroy Dallas in game 5.