Those of you outside Chicago or who aren’t basketball fans probably haven’t followed much of the Chicago Bulls-Boston Celtics first round playoff series, but me being a huge Bulls fan, I have followed it every step of the way. The Celtics are the defending NBA champs and went into the playoffs with the 2nd seed in the playoffs, the Bulls had the 7th seed, which meant that Boston had home court advantage. The Celtics would be playing without their best player, Kevin Garnett but were still expected to beat the Bulls rather easily as they still have a great team. Well, as it turned out the series was anything but easy. What we just witnessed was one of the all time greatest playoff series in the history of the NBA and maybe even among the greatest in the history of sports. I’ve been watching basketball for 20 years and I’ve never seen anything like it. The series went 7 games and 5 of the 7 games were nail biting, drama filled games. Four of the seven games went into overtime; in fact they played 7 overtimes in the series including an utterly amazing game 6 in Chicago which featured 3 overtimes. That game in itself was the best game of the series and when I think about it, probably the best NBA game I’ve ever seen. It had it all, nearly a fight in the first half, a double digit lead blown by each team, big shot after big shot, and an easy point blank layup missed by Kirk Hinrich of the Bulls with seconds left in triple overtime that could have sealed the game. There are not enough adjectives I could use to describe how good this series was. It made everybody in Chicago fall in love with basketball again for the first time since the glory days back in the 1990s. After a while it was more than just people in Boston and Chicago who were talking about this series as it was the lead story on ESPN just about every day for the last week. When I look back on this series, it will be one that we will talk about for years. At the end of the year when ESPN has its greatest games they will mention game 6 and maybe even game 4 which “only” went to double OT. In the end though, the Bulls were unable to upset the Celtics, losing game 7 yesterday in Boston, but it was a magical ride and much better than anybody could have expected.
Yesterday though was a great sports day all around. First I watched the Cubs beat the Marlins. Then in the afternoon, Jt, Dave and I went to bet the Kentucky Derby at an OTB in Joliet that we go to every year. Of course, none of us won, but it was still fun. We then met Don at Buffalo Wild Wings to watch game 7. Although I’m not a hockey fan, the Chicago Blackhawks were also playing a playoff game last night as well against the Vancouver Canucks. It was funny to be at a packed sports bar with people watching and cheering both games. There would be a break in the action in the Bulls game and all of a sudden, people would start cheering and I would have no idea why at first until I’d look at the other tv with the Hawks game.
I swear sometimes my mind never stops thinking of funny things or bits of comedy, even when I sleep. Are any of you familiar with those Dos Equis beer commercials featuring “The Most Interesting Man In The World?” For those of you who haven’t seen them, you can check out the Dos Equis website to see some of them. Anywho, this morning the last dream I had before I woke up was me making fun of those commercials (I guess its flattery, because I really do like the commercials) by parodying them with kind of an adult version. I woke up and found it so funny that I instantly sent a text to all my friends with some of the lines from the dream. I guess I was one of the only ones who found it funny because only 2 people replied. That being said, I’m still going to write it here along with a couple of additional ones not from the dream:
If he has an erection lasting longer then 4 hours, he doesn’t need to see a doctor.
For a good time, just think of him.
He shits fudge and pisses beer.
He fucks so good that any woman in a 35 mile radius also has orgasms.
“I don’t always use a condom but when I do, I prefer Trojan. Stay horny my friends.”