Upon Further Review: Tipping the cap to road fans
We have all traveled to ball games to watch our kids play.
In some cases, you may just be a fan and go on the road to support your team. But whatever the reason may be, it takes a lot of effort sometimes to hit the road to go catch a ball game.
If you’re a parent and it’s an early game you have to make arrangements to take off work early and drive an hour or so just to try and make it on time.
Traffic is always an issue and sometimes can make you late even if you think you have left early enough to allow yourself plenty of time. Road work or a wreck can keep you from seeing the start, or sometimes from seeing the whole game.
It takes time and you’ll end up spending a little money when you travel with the team. If you have a family and everyone goes, then you can easily spend $40-50 on supper. You have your gas, which now cost us $1.60 a gallon.
Anybody that does this should give theirself a pat on the back.
We can’t always make it to every game, but for the most part there are not many parents who don’t hit the road to watch their kids play. A lot of parents go to support their kids, even those that don’t even get much playing time. These parents still go out of their way to make every trip, even with the knowledge that their kid might not play that day.
Then you have the people that don’t even have any kids playing, but still enjoy watching the games. These people should really be commended.
They take the time and effort to hit the road and sometimes travel as long as two hours or more just to show their support.
One thing that really impresses me is these people still go even if the Pioneers are 0-10 or 10-0. It doesn’t matter to them, they still support the athletic programs no matter what.
To all those people who take time to travel with the teams, I say thank you and know the coaches and players appreciate everything you do. It’s a great feeling to know when you’re a couple of hours away from home you can look up in the stands and always see familiar faces.
• Now just to rant a bit, I have to get this Mike Tyson and Clifford Etienne fight off by chest.
“Iron Mike,” the man with all the demons, knocked out Etienne in 49 seconds. But I watched the replay of the fight, and have to wonder if Etienne might have been paid a little extra to go out so quickly.
Granted, Tyson hit him with a devastating right hand. But Etienne was supposed to be able to take a punch. The fight that seemed destined to never happen came to an early end.
This fight seemed to be cancelled more times than my paycheck, and yet it was over so quickly.
Maybe it was the old Tyson. After all, 16 of his knockouts have come in the first 1:33 of the first round. He knocked out Marvis Frazier in 1985 and it only took 30 seconds.
Will Tyson be able to come back and fight a person like Lennox Lewis again?
Sure. He just won’t be on the winning end.
Tyson still has some punches left in him, but the days of being a heavyweight champion are gone for good.
I’m sure there will be another big fight for Tyson, though.
After all, he still owes his ex-wife a $6.5 million divorce settlement.