6/15/07- Guest Blog by Roger Sanchez (College friend of El Pansonsote's - Pansonsote's on hiatus tonite - because he's out celebrating the Spurs win- probably drinking a few Michelada's - just a crazy guess...)
I live in DC, and was at the downtown ESPN zone, 4 and a half blocks from the White House watching the game. Are there no Spurs fans outside of San Antonio? It felt like me, against the entire, restaurant- bar-block etc...Same thing with game 3, game 2....etc.... Anywhere I've been this NBA Finals, I am one against everybody else.
I've been holding many mid-Spurs-Cav's play's discussions with folks occupying stools next to me in an effort to try & figure out why nobody gives the Spurs any kindness. At a table next to mine tonight, there were 2 guys- 1 was from Dallas...and had lived in Houston. Not even he was for the Spurs....
Another table during Game 3 reminded me that I was after all in the East Coast...home of the Eastern Conference. That made a a bit of sense....but still...not even a couple other Spurs fans???In this huge place? The guy I just sat next to though, agreed with another, different group of guys who I chatted with in Game 3: Spurs are boring - (he said). He went on to say, they're good, they do everything right, in a way it's boring --- they just have that luck- and with the Cav's, well, they're the underdogs.
It's a lonely thing being a Spurs fans up here, I tell ya! I was just reading about one of the Cav's players, Damon Jones, in yahoo.com: they ask him if he had ever thought about playing for the Spurs:- "I don't fit their profile," Jones, the Cavs' flashiest dresser and team clown said with a smile. "I have a very colorful personality. Not saying those guys don't, but that's never been an option for me."
Who needs flash? I certainly don't. It's too much drama. I admire the family, team, & spiritual focus along with the work ethic of the San Antonio Spurs. It may be a David Robinson legacy, but I think it's the thing that has gotten the Spurs to the Dynasty they are today.
Flash- nah, jewelry- nah, tricks and flashy dunks? Nope. It's just good 'ol fashioned playing - and the record speaks for 'ol fashioned playing. I mean, if I want flash- I can always go watch the Globetrotters....
LeBoring? I'll take a pass...
-Roger