I love my wife...but really.....damn

So my wife was born in Chicago and move to Iowa when she was 8. She has spent the last 13 years in Phoenix and is really a baseball fan and not much of a hockey fan at all, although she does love going to the Coyotes and drinking some beers and what not. Somehow she is a bandwagon Chicago fan just because it is cool and easy to do at times, half of Phoenix already is from Chicago and root for the Cubs, Bears, Bulls and Blackhawks. Many of our best friends are from Chicago and I understand why they root for their teams, mostly, a life long affair with the teams through good times and bad! I get that, respect it and actually applaud it! What I can't stand are the others...

So we are watching the game 6 of the Blackhawks vs Vancouver series tonight and she is only half paying attention for the first 3 periods, then overtime hits and she is going crazy for the Blackhawks. I love her for the fact that she will root hard for a team and yell, cuss and scream at the TV or in the stands. Tonight, she ignored the game until overtime.

*****Random Rant or Useless Knowledge coming forth from Smitty********

Is there anything better than the Stanley Cup Playoffs, Hockey has the best post season by far! I am much more of a Football fan and love the NBA, but the SCP are the best playoff in all of sports.

*****end of rant******

So when the Jackoffs, err I mean BlackHawks scored late in the first overtime and forced a game 7 (I love Game 7's) she went ballistic! I mean full on screaming, yelling, singing, dancing, whooting and what not. She was very excited and that is an understatement. Yet me being the asshole I am ask her......

"Honey, can you name one player on the Chicago Blackhawks, you know the team that just forced game seven and we have been watching for the past 3 hours?"

Guess what her answer was.......yep, silence, nothing. At this point she stops to jump up and down from the winning goal and look at the two tvs we have going to see if she can get a name. Nope I turned the station to the Lakers vs Hornets game one one TV and the Cards vs Reds on the other, no chance for her to pick out a name of a player, hehehe.

I love my wife and she knows a hell of a lot of sports...more than 98% of women and probably more than 50% of men, but she is still a jump on the bandwagon fan....an that part annoys me...not so much in her but in everyone. Everyone needs to pick a team and stick with them through thick and thin...ahh another day for another post!!!

Is it possible to be this bad at picking sports franchise?

As I sit here in my recliner with a couple of tears streaming down my cheeks (at least 10 Budweiser's deep) I believe it impossible to be as much as a sports loser as I. I dare you to prove me wrong. I honestly believe I am the worlds biggest sports loser ever. It is Wednesday, April 20th, 2011 and the Phoenix Coyotes were just eliminated...from the NHL playoffs and possibly their entire existence! Ahh... a little history might make sense for you at this point....

My name is Smitty, just like half the other assholes with the last name Smith. I really do not think I am a loser, just when it comes to picking sports franchises and them winning. I swear way too much, drink too much beer and you should most certainly not live vicariously through me. I just love sports and believe I am a curse on any team I root for. By the way, I flunked English, Spanish and any other ish that requires grammar or punctuation, so deal with or get lost.

So I will begin with just tonight...The Phoenix Coyotes for the second straight year get knocked out of the Stanley Cup Playoffs due to those bastards in Detroit. Seriously, I know there are no jobs in Detroit so apparently they just all focus on beating Phoenix in Ice Hockey. Never-mind the fact that they are better than the Coyotes and they have history and tradition on their side (a reoccurring theme throughout this blog), the Phx team just failed to even show up. Guess who I root for...yep the Coyotes... I live ten minutes from the soon to be empty barn called Jobbing.com Arena and the Cardinals stadium (no idea right now what bank, insurance company, or rich corporation are paying the AZ Cards at this point to name the stadium)...oh yay, University of Phoenix...dumb. Please que the music for this endless random senseless rant of mine, the first of many. I suggest humming the theme music to jeopardy or cheers, maybe the office - your choice!

Anywhoo, so we got eliminated, again, from the assholes from Detroit, again. It would not be so bad if I didn't work with a great guy names Morgan (names Changed to protect the Assholes/Innocent) who is a huge Detroit Fan. My main beef with Morgan is that he grew up in upstate New York and he some how is a Redwing fan, along with a Steeler Fan, Ohio St, and I think Man U. I think the super heroes were taken the day he picked favorite teams, so I just call him a bandwagon fan to piss him off...usually it works also.

He also got free tickets to Game 3 in a suite and tonights game 4 in row 2 for FREE! So as I watch the game in HD at home (thank god for HD, best thing ever!) he is losing his voice, I can only hope, while sitting in row two in his Redwing Jersey with a broom in his hand....yep, I am going to punch him tomorrow!