more thoughts on the nba finals
when you see images of the 80s celtics winning and the crowd rushing the floor of the old boston garden, don’t you kind of miss that sort of fan celebration? i mean i know they still do it in college, but in the nba, especially now post-malice in the palace or whatever you want to call the melee in detroit, can’t have that anymore, which is a little sad.
also, whatever happened to the post game shots of the locker room, champagne being sprayed EVERYWHERE. athletes (e.g. jordan) so happy, so tired, hugging the trophy with every remaining ounce of strength. what happened to that? heck, didn’t they used to even present the trophies in the locker rooms? and as a corollary, for times they still show/do the locker room champagne stuff, i really hate that now the teams like hermetically seal the lockers with plastic tarps or whatever. hey i know these guys clothing, shoes, accessories cost more than i made last year, but they can’t afford it? having the lockers all taped up to protect against the champagne just takes away from it a little. btw, if they stopped televising the champagne celebrations because of the little hubbub over that college team that did it, i’ll be upset about how ridiculous this country is.
last thing, one day, one guy, after winning the championship, should bust out the huge, formula 1 sized champagne bottle. spray your teammates with that. it’d be awesome.
