ITP SPORTS: THE CULTURE OF SPORTS

I was wondering WHY I was hearing "who dat" in New York, ALL fucking week as I follow metal more than I follow sports, in the 80's I followed sports MORE. Sorry if I was little rude, or did a double take to "who dat nation" but I could not get past the vernacular, or the fact that there were Saints fans in New York of all places. Please don't put ITP author in the middle of sports rivalries, specifically if MY fave teams are not in it. I don't even listen to WFAN anymore, lack of reception, although I miss Steve Sommers.
Yeh, it's difficult being a RANGERS, KNICKS (Ewing, Oakley, Starks era), METS fan, I'm thinking about putting the bag on my head then again, I don't think about it much. I still get teary about MANNING to TYREE in 2008, and I love a good football team that are modeled on defense, I hope the GIANTS keep that identity. Until then, wake me up for a sports junkie binge, when these above teams become competitive as we suffer more.
I'm total metal head, that's my obsession, MUSIC.
Not all New Yorkers are as arrogant and spoiled as the above dude in the video, (he really needs to see the world more) because I am a Hudson Valley New Yorker (formerly from NYC), but it's home, I get annoyed with fellow New Yorkers too.
This journal entry is meant to be an anti jock, blasphemous parody on sports worship.

THE CULTURE OF SPORTS IN ONE PARAGRAPH:
WORST SPORTS FANS: European soccer fans (racist chants, bone heads, hooligans)..Yankess and Red Sox fans. (although I'm from New York and hope not to offend my Yankee fan friends who work at the Stadium), any Philadelphia fan, and celebrity LA FAKER fans accept for Jack Nicholson.
RELIEVED THEY BROKE THE CURSE SO THEY WILL STOP WHINING: Boston Red Sox 2004, being completely objective as I'm NOT a fan of either team. Coming back from 3 game deficit and taking on the METS 70's identity of "Ya Gotta Be-live" to beat the Yankees as David Ortiz was destined to go yard on a very long, and great at bat, extending his arms (Yanks should have pitched him inside), RANGERS 1994 (time to break another curse), NOLA SAINTS 2009/2010
SPORTS DYNASTIES WITH GRACE: Chicago Bulls (of 90's), LA LAKERS and BOSTON CELTICS and the fact that most leagues in sports are competitive enough that there aren't dynasties anymore.
DISAPPOINTING IN SPORTS: Steroids in baseball for the glamor of the homerun ball to sell tics. Wildcards in baseball, why, to make the sport more competitive?
UNDERRATED SPORTS FANS: Iowa, Nebraska and markets that don't have NFL, MLB or NBA franchises that live and die on college hoops and football, Chicago Cubs fans.
AND THE POINT IS?: METS tearing down Shea Stadium for the "nu" Citi Field as the baseball field is still to close to the airport and annoying airplanes.. Knicks and Yankee "corporate suit and tie fans".
AN ASTERISK NEXT TO: Barry Bonds homerun record. I swear Babe Ruth ate 10 hotdogs a day, and drank 4 pitchers after the game, was a fat tub of lard, and didn't need steroids to hit that many home runs. Hank Aarons homerun record was broken by Barry Bonds last decade. Anything that Mark Mc Guire, Jose Canseco ever accomplished, those base ball bats look like twigs in there hands, you KNOW that they are on steroids, then again, so is every other football player.
THE MARKETING OF A TEAM WITH CHARACTER: METS of '86 (Doc, Straw, Mex, Nails, Kid, Darling), NOLA Saints 2009/2010 (Who Dat Nation), Red Sox 2004, Philadelphia Phillies (2008), MINNESOTA TWINS, '85 CHICAGO BEARS, MICHAEL JORDAN and THE 90's CHICAGO BULLS, KOBE BRYANT and the LA LAKERS,.
WEIRD SPORTS RIVALRIES: BOSTON/NY RIVALRIES, MANNING BROTHERS HATRED, California sports teams, Texas sports teams, NY METS/ YANKEE RIVALRIES, NY/PHILADELPHIA RIVALRIES, CHICAGO/DETROIT RIVALRIES., North Western NY vs. Southern NY rivalries, NJ/NY rivalries, LA LAKERS and BOSTON CELTICS rivalries, PITTSBURGH STEELER/DALLAS COWBOY RIVALRIES.
OH PLEASE BREAK THE CURSE: Chicago Cubs, and throw the opposing teams home run ball back on the field , New York Knicks, Buffalo Bills.
UNIQUE STADIUMS: Wrigley Field, Fenway park= baseball history.
WITH AWE: "The Frozen Tundra of Lambeau Field", Madison Square Garden, Candlestick Park, Soldier Field I, Nortre Dame Stadium.
THE MOST ANTI CLIMATIC SPORTS RIVALRIES: Yankee and Mets Subway series..Very boring from a Mets fan perspective I had been waiting for this all of my life, I had never been so bored and disappointed.
WOW, UNEXPECTED NATURAL DISASTERS EFFECTING SPORTS: 1989 Oakland/ San Francisco (BAY AREA) WORLD SERIES, an earthquake happened in the middle of the series during the game. TV coverage was halted as baseball players helped traumatized fans. MULTIPURPOSE SUPERDOME: NOLA's SUPERDOME was damaged by hurricane Katrina and was used as a homeless shelter for the displaced in 2005.
BROTHERS 4 LIFE: ..Until they compete against each other, Peyton and Eli Manning , Tiki and Rhonde Barber. (Tiki is now retired).
MOST OVERRATED SPORTS: Golf, NASCAR Racing , WWF wrestling (if ya call "that a sport"-ya must be a redneck). .We're coming up with some some nu rulz to make golf more exiting, if ya don't get the hole in one, first person to find yer golf ball in the woods and to get a good swing, and run fast to the next hole while being timed, winz points.
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BOXING: ???, Don Kings Hair????
MOST UNDERRATED SPORTS:Skateboarding, Hockey, soccer, tennis and rugby..Hockey and Soccer are neither boring, and Rugby and the aforementioned hockey are physical and brutal.
SOLITARY SPORTS and UNDERRATED: Snowboarding, surfing, skiing, marathon running, bob sledding and please support your Olympics.
PROUD TO BE A REDNECK AND AN UNDERRATED SPORT: BMX RACING and BMX STUNTS.
SORRY JOCKS and REDNECKS, NOT A SPORT: WWF WRESTLING, MOSHING.
MUCHO MISSED SPORTS ANNOUNCERS WHOM YOU TRUST and WILL TURN OFF THE RADIO AND TV JUST TO HEAR THEM: JOHN MADDEN (NFL), BOB MURPHY (RIP)-METS ANNOUNCER), HARRY CARAY (CUBS ANNOUNCER- RIP) PHIL "HOLY COW" RIZZUTO (RIP), HOWARD COSSELL
WORST SPORTS ANNOUNCERS: AL MICHAELS, whomever does the super bowl play by play 2008-super bowl-TV) , HOWIE ROSE.
I HOPE HE's NOT ON STEROIDS HE' SEEMS SO SWEET: SAMMY SOSA
FANS OF THESE TEAMS SUFFER-WITH BAGS ON OUR HEADS: KNICKS (uggh, it hurts), RANGERS (ouch), BUFFALO BILLS, OAKLAND A's, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON (baseball), BALTIMORE ORIOLES fans, must be an easy ticket to get. The Knicks are so bad, that the fans are screaming for trades and draft picks, showing up only when the opposing teams marquee player is in town. Spike Lee won't even show up to Knick games now.
Yeh, it's that bad..
IF YOU LIVE IN THESE REGIONS IT EITHER TOOK YOU LONG ENOUGH OR YOU SHOULD SUPPORT YOUR: Philadelphia Phillies, NY JETS, NY/NJ GIANTS, MINNESOTA TWINS, NJ DEVILS, PITTSBURGH PENGUINS AND STEELERS, BUFFALO SABRES, WASHINGTON CAPITALS, VANCOUVER CANUCKS, CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS, DENVER NUGGETS, CLEVELAND CAVALIERS.
DON'T LOOK NOW BUT THE OLD GUARD IS BACK: LA LAKERS, BOSTON CELTICS, NY YANKEES
A HOCKEY GAME AT A FIGHT: That will be the day, the culture of hockey goons and brutality of such as players are hired to be defensive goons.
SORRY, HOWEVER, 70 YEAR GERIATRIC PEOPLE DON'T RELATE TO YOUR TEAM AFTER YOU LEFT TOWN: BROOKLYN DODGERS moved from Brooklyn, NY to LA, CALIFORNIA, OAKLAND RAIDERS moved from OAKLAND, CA to LA, CALIFORNIA.
THE WHOLE ENTIRE COUNTRY HATES: THE NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS (CHEATRIOTS), and "No longer America's Team", DALLAS COWBOYS (must have been those cheerleaders).
WORKING CLASS BLUE COLLAR TEAMS and FANS: NY GIANTS, NY RANGERS, PITTSBURGH STEELERS, PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES, NY METS (post 90's), BOSTON RED SOX, CHICAGO BEARS FANS.
ENVIOUS TALENTS: MICHEAL JORDAN (basketball/baseball), BO JACKSON, DEION SANDERS (previous two played football/baseball), RANDALL CUNNINGHAM (QB/PUNTER and can run)
NBA OFFICIATING, IS IT FIXED?: What a shame! http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3436401
EVERYONE IS HAPPY THAT: ELI MANNING ESCAPED and DAVID TYREE made the catch, the "who dat nation" finally won a Super Bowl, and the Pittsburgh Steelers receiver (Antonio Holmes) kept both feet in bounds.
TAKE A TRIP TO COOPERSTOWN NY OR CANTON OHIO (BASEBALL and FOOTBALL HALL OF FAMES): Baseball and football history is AMERICAN history.
SUPPORT WOMEN IN SPORTS and THE WNBA: Don Imus comment about nappy headed hoes (the female Rutgers basketball team) last decade was completely sexist and uncalled for. I doubt that IMUS can run a full court press, or run up and down a court at all.
SPORTS HEROES: JACKIE ROBINSON, WALTER PEYTON, WILLIE MAYS, MICKEY MANTLE, HAMERIN HANK, OZZIE SMITH, ALI
REALLY SWEET SPORTS HERO: FLOYD PATTERSON (RIP)
DOUCHENOZZLE: OJ SIMPSON
I WOULD BUY: BABE RUTH A BEER
BEST TREND IN SPORTS: LONG HAIR, DREADS, BRAIDS IN FOOTBALL
GREAT PLAYERS, HOWEVER I DON'T AGREE WITH: PETE ROSE, REGGIE WHITE
DON'T LOOK NOW, THEY COULD BE CONTENDERS: NY JETS (Brett Favre, I thought he retired, remember the NY SACK EXCHANGE of Mark Gastineau and the Richard Todd era.)
IF YOU'RE A NY/NJ SPORTS JUNKIE: THE METS, YANKEES and now the NY GIANTS and NY JETS all have and will be getting new stadiums as GIANTS stadium is being demolished for a brand new nearby stadium (NJ) as we speak.
Later-Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-