Weekend Sports Wrap-up
"Smiling Pug," by Seattlest Flickr contributor *Smiling Pug*
This morning, we were down at the local diner having breakfast and mulling the sports weekend which was as lacking in hope as the plate of runny eggs sitting before us. Huskies lost. Cougars lost. Seahawks lost. Even the Husky hoops team lost.
And then a certain diminutive Seahawks receiver strode in, and, with two of his cute-as-a-button kids in tow, sat down at the table beside me. Almost immediately, the cook emerged from the kitchen. In his hand was the sports section of the newspaper, which was conspicuously absent from the random sections circulating around the cafe. The cook handed over the missing section and said, "Sorry about the game yesterday. We lost a tough one on Friday too."
For the next few minutes, the cook and the Seahawk talked about the high school team coached by the cook, which lost a playoff game on a last-second play. And while the few grown-ups who remained in the diner commiserated each other about seasons now lost, the kids dug into their breakfasts, enthusiastically chugging juice from their sippy cups, with the older one reminding the younger to use a napkin. Soon, it was time to get the kids off to school, and the rest of us wandered off into the still-foggy morning.
That's right, Eighty-Four. Life goes on.
So rather than dwell on the negative from the weekend, here's our list of five little things that made us smile during our day at the Seahawks game yesterday:
1) Thankfully, the Seahawks ended the tradition of swearing in a horde of fresh new Army recruits during the "Military Appreciation Day" pre-game ceremonies. It was always a creepy scene for us, like sitting in a courtroom during sentencing. (Not ours.)
2) Kenny Loggins was born in Everett?!? Who knew?
3) There were the least amount of visiting fans at yesterday's game as there has been all season. Let's hope the Jets fans stay home, too.
4) For the second time this season, the park-and-ride bus did not break down on the busway during the trip home.
5) And then arriving home, we saw the replay of the Steelers game, in which a last-second TD was blown dead. Had the TD been allowed, the Steelers would have covered the betting line. One expert believes that 'Steeler Nation' lost $32 million on that play. Heh.
