Relative Something

What a treat it is to be able to enjoy great sport competition, even when my team isn’t involved. The NCAA hockey tournament is being played locally and broadcast nationally. I’m feelin’ it. Maybe the energy from the recent basketball tournament is carrying over for me. I didn’t have a team to root for in that event, yet enjoyed watching that competition.

Saturday will be the championship game between Michigan and University of Minnesota Duluth. My natural inclination is to cheer on the Minnesota representative, but I’ve just watched that Michigan team upset North Dakota, and their effort made quite an impression on me. I guess I can be happy with either team’s success. That is an added benefit to not having a team involved for which I feel a strong allegiance. I’ve got nothing to lose.

May the better team win. And may the game be dramatically interesting right to the end. That’s all that us neutral fans really want. Especially since the basketball final game was mostly an ugly one, in terms of level of play. I’m hoping for a full game of great hockey Saturday, befitting a championship final.

It’ll be my last hurrah to winter sports. Then it will be time to finally get myself out on my bicycle. Apparently it is springtime out there.