The first of which being the Saint Patrick's Day Parade. The second being the Lynx Championship Parade.  Now I'm sure most of you know via our artificial relationship on the internet that outside of Fairfax, AK I'm a pretty big sports fan, a Philadelphia sports fan but a sports fan none-the-less. To be fair, it's not that I don't root for the home team. It's just -- how should I explain this -- us Philadelphians waste so much time and energy on our beloved sports clubs that there really isn't any available real estate in our hearts for other franchises. That being said if a bandwagon presents itself in Minnesota I'm pretty quick to slap on the uniform of the fair weather fan.  I don't have the most conventional career so of course I had free time on a Tuesday afternoon to check out the extremely orderly and extremely polite mayhem. It was clear that the majority of the attendees didn't follow the WNBA -- myself included -- but who cares we won something!  Unfortunately I don't have any audio evidence of crashing the parade route, but I did manage to snap a few shots with my cell phone. I wasn't the only one yearning to be a part of the party. Thousands of people felt the urge to royally screw over the downtown traffic, so unlike the St. Patrick's Day Parade I wasn't in danger of getting awkwardly dragged out of the street.  The whole affair got funneled into the Target Center. The fair weather flock sat and watched a victory ceremony that I felt ambivalent about. I didn't know a single starter on the team, and the Phillies had just been eliminated in a heartbreaker by the friggin' St. Louis Cardinals. The whole thing was nice but I couldn't help wondering what one of these shindigs felt like for a team I actually cared about.  CommentsLeave a Reply |
