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I'm sitting here chuckling at this! Not much of a sports fan but in person I have at times enjoyed it. A memorable one is one I was at in San Diego, CA. The Chargers were playing Denver Broncos. Several of our neighbors went too. A Charger player took off with the football and ran the entire field. The place went nuts! Everyone including me, were on our feet clapping and yelling. Honestly I didn't know why but what the heck... I looked at my gal friend and asked what was the big deal. My gal friend said, it was the first time this had happened in that league. I came home and called my girl's Dad and asked if he got to see if he got to see the game. He was in the Navy, aboard ship and had the duty. He tried to get a stand by but no luck. He told me to go on anyway. I asked if he saw the game but he wasn't able to and asked who won. I told him and said what happened. He groaned and said, I love football, you don't like football and saw history being made.  
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I grew up in a basketball town.....The senior High team won the Provincial Championships just enough to keep the fans hyped.....Every year our town hosted the "All Native Basketball Tournament".....Those guys had mad skills. There were women's teams as well and I remember young husbands holding their babies on the sidelines so their wives could nurse during breaks..... I loved basketball....loved watching, loved playing. I also loved baseball.....In elementary school, I got up an hour early in baseball season to be at the playground early to play Scrub.I went on to play in a local Women's League.....Our team was sponsored by my dad's business and my sister also played on that team. I had a short stint in Hydroplane Racing until a friend's boat flipped about 20 ft in the air and came down on top of him.....I have done a lot of sailing, kayaking,rock-climbing, bush-whacking......Kayaking through tidal rapids running at 10-15 knots is really fun........And there's swimming and Mountain-Bike Trail-Riding..........Oh, and the ice-hockey on frozen lakes...... I have never been interested in watching professional sports and I've never owned a TV, but I sometimes go to the local arena and watch my friends play Hockey.....their team is called "Old Growth", which refers to forest that has never been logged........but it's pretty slow and polite.. more like a combination of Hockey and Transcendental Meditation.
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Then there was the international Soccer Showdown...My dad sold, installed and repaired Marine Electronics. He was a really friendly guy and this one time he was calibrating the compass on a Norwegian Merchant-Marine ship and was invited to a celebratory dinner the next night. He asked me to accompany him to the celebration. All the people who worked on that ship were dwarfs....Little People......all of them. Everything on that ship was made in scale for their size. The food and service, the company,conversation, the entertainment....all was superb .....After we had eaten and been serenaded, one of the men asked me, out-of-the-blue, which was the best Soccer team in town. ? I said the Itallio-Canadian Club team.......by far. Then they asked if I could arrange a match for them and advertise it well.....They wanted the whole town out.Their ship was going to be in harbour for 2 weeks for repairs. ......I immediately said yes and did what they asked. The Italians were a bit hesitant, thinking the Little guys would not be a challenge.....and asked me to relay the message that they were gluttons for punishment .......... Well, turned out that those Little guys were the Soccer version of the Harlem Globe Trotters........Those Italians didn't know what hit them......after they realized they were going to lose the match, they just relaxed and enjoyed the fun.....they were last seen heading for the pub together, laughing.
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