The NHL Playoffs Are Driving Me To Drink
To say that I'm sort of superstitious about sports would be to say that Will Hunting is decent at math or Winnie the Pooh is just "meh" about honey.When the 2008-2009 BU Terriers made their magical run to a National Championship, Cait and I were seniors at BU, and we were lucky enough to be season ticket holders as well. With that power came great responsibility. I often wore a plain white undershirt to BU Hockey games under my jersey. For two straight nights in November of 2008, BU lost on home ice to the Vermont Catamounts. And wouldn't you know it, I didn't have the undershirt on.From that moment forward for the rest of the season, I didn't attend a hockey game (or whatever debauchery came before and after the game) without tossing on my trusty shirt. BU went an absurd 28-2-4 after those losses to Vermont, and it all came to a head when they pulled off a miracle on the ice in DC to win it all.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC52sC3wfT4And of course, I was there in DC, fully equipped with what came to be known as my "Biohazard T-Shirt". It's now tacked to a door in my apartment.
So what's the point, and why the hell is this on a food blog? I'm getting there, I swear. Maybe.The common theme of my insanity is apparently hockey. The New York Rangers are currently in the Eastern Conference Finals, on an impressive run of their own. In game 5 of the Eastern Conference Quarter Finals (first round), The Rangers were lifeless. Dead. They got run over by the Ottawa Senators en route to falling behind 3-2 in the series, on the brink of elimination.Naturally, I was depressed. In advance of Game 6, Cait brought home a hefty pack of Coors Light bottles to help me get through. And naturally, being depressed, I drank them. But the Rangers didn't lose Game 6. Or Game 7. As soon as I started drinking those damn Coors Light bottles, they turned it all around.
Of course, this became a trend, as did tossing the bottle caps at the garbage can from two rooms away, saving the bottles in a semi-circle formation, standing (especially during power plays and penalty kills) throughout games, re-wearing the same exact clothes for each game, and making sure Cait has my Matty Gilroy jersey with her at all times during games. Now we're two rounds deeper, and the Hockey Gods have made it very clear that Coors Light Bottles are to be consumed during Rangers games if the Rangers are to have any chance of winning.What's the moral of the story? There are a few. First of all, if you're as superstitious as I am, please god be careful about bringing in any type of food or drink into the equation. It's hard to express in words how nasty Coors Light tastes to me right now. Second, Cait is a patient woman. Third, it all comes full circle, and BC Still Sucks.http://youtu.be/GFyGfSxq9oQ