basketball was: Re: oh...very bad joke...

[oboakk]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Rachel Bray" <bray.262 at o...> wrote:
> >Root for the Ohio team!! That's what I'm doing. I'm 
> >_extremely_ 
> >biased, though, since I happen to belong to the "My two 
> >favorite 
> >teams are Purdue and whoever is playing Indiana" club.
> 
> 
> 
> HAHAHAHAA!  I belong to the "My two favorite teams are Ohio 
> State and whoever is playing Michigan!" club.  I had that 
> bumper sticker on my first car in high school until 
> someone, literally, ripped it off.
> 
> Yes, I'm going to root for Kent.  If they lose then I'll 
> have Indiana to root for in the Final Four.
> 
> But the idea of little tiny Kent State playing in the Final 
> Four makes me giggle, too.  What a great Cinderella story!
> 

Like the greatest basketball (maybe even sports in general) movie 
ever made: "Hoosiers"!!  I think my family owns multiple copies of 
that video...it's a great movie, but it's also our own little brush 
with fame: some of my relatives were extras in it!  The main street 
of the little town where my grandparents live was used as the main 
street of 'Hickory, Indiana', and I went to a party once at one of 
the fieldhouses they filmed in.  That movie will definitely put 
anyone in a 'March Madness' mood.  Maybe I'll watch this afternoon.

Abby
P.S. None of my friends will watch 'Hoosiers' with me anymore because 
I point and scream something like "Look, it's Uncle Bob, up in the 
stands!" whenever I see someone I know.