Blazers, Please Take Our Hearts

Way back in November we wrote that we were going to start following the Blazers. We got off to a fast start; however, as the NBA season ground on and the Huskies took off, we kind of fell off the map on that one. The December snow canceled our trip to the Rose Garden--well, that and the lack of any planning whatsoever.

Yet when we do catch the Blazers, we enjoy them, we scan Blazers Edge every once and a while, and every time we watch Trailblazers Courtside on Comcast, we feel that Mike Rice could be the unintentional comedy-providing uncle we’ve never had.

So we are going to do our best to watch and root on the red and black during the playoffs. As we’ve always said, it’s hard to just become a fan of team, since a real rooting interest has to grow organically, like townhouses.

Obviously, what we want most of all during the Blazer playoff run is a mid-air collision between David Stern and Howard Schultz’s private planes. (We would also be hoping for the wreckage to land on Aubrey McClendon--though the guy is so hard up for cash that he would probably love the chance to get at his life insurance policy.)