Saturday, December 26, 2009

Saturday (Chrismas Hangover) Quickie

Lakers fans offered about as good of a present as you could ask for: Throwing foam tchotschkes onto the Staples Center floor.

Most of you probably agree with me that L.A. sports fans -- particularly Lakers fans -- are insufferable, right up there with Boston fans or New York fans. (Not quite, but up there.)

And yet it actually made me respect them more that they would take those Nike giveaways and chuck them onto the floor to protest -- in no particular order -- their team getting blown out, their team getting blown out by LeBron, their team getting blown out by Shaq, their team getting blown out in the marquee Christmas Day game, the officiating.

Was it a temper-tantrum? A minor revolt against holiday commercialism? A laughably short fuse for a meaningless regular-season game? Probably a little bit of all three.

I raise a day-after-Christmas toast to you, Lakers fans: For making me not just like you, but applaud you, for your display of petulance on Christmas Day that was amusing enough and high-profile enough to rival Philly fans booing Santa Claus lo those many years ago.

I can only hope for a similar display of protest from dejected USC fans in San Francisco tonight.

Hope everyone got everything they wanted yesterday.

-- D.S.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Here is a vid to the foam finger frisbee free-for-all you talked about...

http://curtisandkyle.com/2009/12/26/kobe-vs-lebron-and-the-flying-foam-fingers/