DIE SOFT
with a vengeance.
I will have more -- much more -- to say on last
night's epic, season-saving hockey game later today, but after reading a couple
of articles in this morning's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and after narrowly
preventing my head from exploding at one particularly maddening point, I have to
say this first...
In a season when Pittsburgh media types seem to have gone out of their way to seek, to find, and to report on Penguins faithful who really are anything but, this may be the most infuriating, offensive sentence of all:
Die-hard Penguins fans Dan Lennon, 20, of Millvale, and his buddy, Dan Schwartzmier, 21, of Millvale, were on their way out of the arena last night when Max Talbot scored with seconds left in regulation to tie the game.
Note to Dan Lennon, Dan Schwartzmier, and especially to PG reporter Dan Majors (it must be the name): die-hard Penguins fans do not bail on a one-goal hockey game, much less a one-goal Stanley Cup Finals hockey game, with less than one minute left, when their team -- goaltender pulled, extra attacker on, the fate of a magnificent season hanging in the balance -- is still working its collective ass off trying to tie the score and send the game into overtime.
That's what die-soft Penguins fans do. That's what quit-early Penguins fans do. That's what fair-weather, close-enough, can't-be-bothered-to-hang-on-til-the-very-end-cause-it's-all-about-us Penguins fans do.
There are a whole hell of a lot of them out there. And if you media folks want to cover them -- hell, you've been doing it all throughout the playoffs; why stop now? -- great. But please spare the true faithful, the true die-hards, all the true fucking fans who support the Penguins all the way to the end, whether that end is victory or defeat, the indignity of association with people for whom an extra forty-five seconds, and one last burst of hope and will and belief and support, are just too damned much to muster.
In a season when Pittsburgh media types seem to have gone out of their way to seek, to find, and to report on Penguins faithful who really are anything but, this may be the most infuriating, offensive sentence of all:
Die-hard Penguins fans Dan Lennon, 20, of Millvale, and his buddy, Dan Schwartzmier, 21, of Millvale, were on their way out of the arena last night when Max Talbot scored with seconds left in regulation to tie the game.
Note to Dan Lennon, Dan Schwartzmier, and especially to PG reporter Dan Majors (it must be the name): die-hard Penguins fans do not bail on a one-goal hockey game, much less a one-goal Stanley Cup Finals hockey game, with less than one minute left, when their team -- goaltender pulled, extra attacker on, the fate of a magnificent season hanging in the balance -- is still working its collective ass off trying to tie the score and send the game into overtime.
That's what die-soft Penguins fans do. That's what quit-early Penguins fans do. That's what fair-weather, close-enough, can't-be-bothered-to-hang-on-til-the-very-end-cause-it's-all-about-us Penguins fans do.
There are a whole hell of a lot of them out there. And if you media folks want to cover them -- hell, you've been doing it all throughout the playoffs; why stop now? -- great. But please spare the true faithful, the true die-hards, all the true fucking fans who support the Penguins all the way to the end, whether that end is victory or defeat, the indignity of association with people for whom an extra forty-five seconds, and one last burst of hope and will and belief and support, are just too damned much to muster.
Posted: Tue - June 3, 2008 at 08:36 AM
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