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Wednesday, 23 November 2005

Okay, I promised a Pete Carroll episode and here goes. Watching football the other night, and what a game it was, I was faced with the question of why I don't like Pete Carroll or USC. It's nothing personal; I don't like the Patriots or the Cowboys or the Yankees for the same reason (well, I don't like the Cowboys because I grew up a Skins fan and I hate the Yankees because I'm a Red Sox fan, but still) I hate dynasties. And USC is as close to being a Dynasty as college football has. It's an interesting study in human nature as to why we want to bring down whoever's on top. In sports, why do we root for the underdog? The same reason we want to see people above us fail sometimes? Does everyone have an issue with inadequate feelings, and seeing someone else succeed makes us feel like a lesser person? I have had my share of self-esteem issues in the past, especially when it comes to body image or wanting desperately to be liked, but I feel like I'm in a better place now than ever before. Maybe because I'm finally in a trusting, two-way relationship that I've 'succeeded' at, or because I can recognize that I can be overweight and still be beautiful, or a strong willed, slightly anal-retentive woman that people still laugh with and have fun with. But no matter how comfortable I am with myself, I still like to see pretty, skinny girls make an idiot of themselves when they say something stupid or have a Valley girl accent. And I still love to see an underdog sports team pull out a huge upset. Like Georgia Tech beating Miami. Even though that means there will definitely not be an ACC National Champion. At last, basketball season is upon us...

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#1 29 November 2005 - 17:21

To add to this, I had an interesting revelation last night watching Monday Night Football. I for some reason do not harbor this ill will against the Colts. I'm not a Colt's fan, and I generally am blue collar in the team I pull for, which means I will almost always pull for the Steelers, but for some reason I want the Colts to go undefeated and win the Superbowl (unless, of course, they are playing the Panthers or the Skins...and they won't be playing the Skins'). I don't know why. I don't particularly like or dislike Peyton Manning (although I despise his brother for having the same numbers as Philip Rivers but going higher in the draft and getting a starting job and proving me wrong when I said he would never amount to much in the NFL). I don't know much or have any thoughts on Dungy or the rest of the Colts. I guess I just feel like they deserve it. And while they aren't an 'underdog' team anymore, they are also not anywhere near a Dynasty, either. Huh...go figure.