If you don't follow sports, or don't care about the CFL in general, you may not know that the Edmonton Eskimos won the Grey Cup on Sunday, beating the Montreal Alouettes 38-35 in overtime. This is particularly comforting for me as I have been redeemed for my recent backstab (read about it in Traitor) of this great franchise!
I attended the game here in Vancouver, making myself one of the 59, 157 fans packing BC Place for the CFL championship game. I wore my golden sweatshirt and stood up for the green and gold every chance I had. I was sitting in the close confines of bitter Lions fans who hated the "cheaters" (their nickname for the Eskimos following the Western conference finals game where Edmonton beat BC in Vancouver) and wanted to see them lose. Fortunately, these bitter fans are also my friends, so their hostility was generally directed towards the team and not its fans (i.e. - me). Well, there was the one incident when I was smacked in the back of the head with a lead pipe at halftime, but that's another story...
Needless to say, renewing my cheers for Edmonton restored some of the child in me, giving the green and gold a current in this displaced Albertan's veins once more. I will learn from this and never go back...
GREEN AND GOLD FOR LIFE !!!
so there.
2 comments:
I think I teared up there a little bit... *sniff* *sniff*
I was ther too cheering for Edmonton - did you see me??? ;)
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