CyberMusings

To my beloved Devils, who I had ripped rather savagely in a post here just a few scant days ago, all I have to say is, “You’re Forgiven”.

Even you, Johnny Oduya, despite another brain cramp of a play that cost Marty his first shutout of the season.  It didn’t lose the game and it is Thanksgiving, so I’m feeling rather magnanimous.

The evening started off with my brother and I heading into Pittsburgh.  I chose to wear full Devils’ colors as I normally do.  My brother chose not to call a lawyer to keep on standby even though we were going to be in opposition territory and I was going to be hard to miss.

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Six hours, three hundred eighty miles, one very large coffee, and a tank and a half of gas later, I find myself at the home of my brother and sister-in-law in Washington, PA.  For reference, Washington is probably about 30 miles south-southwest of Pittsburgh, close to the southwest corner of Pennsylvania.

This is my third trip out here since my first Thanksgiving trip a year ago with three of the four trips being by car.  I flew out here in August to dog/cat/bunny/goldfish watch while my brother and his wife went on their honeymoon.  It’s a pretty safe bet that I’ll never do that again.  From the time I had left my apartment in August to get to the airport, got on the plane, flew here, got my bags, and my brother had driven us back to the house, I’d have arrived by car about the same time.  I’m not even going to talk about the horror show that was my flight back.

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This was one rough week to be a Devils fan.  Halfway to my preseason goal of seeing eight games in person already, with an away game the night before Thanksgiving to come, I’d like to say I’m happy with my team.  I’d also like to say that I’m dating a Playboy centerfold.  Neither statement would be anywhere near the truth of the matter.  The real truth is that for the first time in many years, I’ve had the displeasure of watching the team play horribly with no real confidence that it’s going to get better.  If someone were to make a movie of the games I saw in person this week, the consecutive losses to the hated Rangers and the annoying Islanders would be titled “The Apathy and the Incompetence”.

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The halfway point of the NFL season finds my Giants holding a 6 wins to 2 losses record.  That fact is even more impressive given that they began the season dismally having lost their first two game while giving up over 80 points over the course of the losses.  They’ve righted the ship, avoided the traps, and took care of business.  There isn’t a useful cliche` for playing well that hasn’t been used to describe them.  Going into Sunday’s NFC East showdown with the despised 7-1 Dallas Cowboys, one of the two teams to have already beaten them, I should be a very happy man.  Instead, I’m seeing red……as in the color of the jerseys the Giants will be wearing while facing their divisional nemesis on Sunday.

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As the autumn winds begin to blow and the temperatures grow colder with each passing day, the annual phenomena of leaves first changing colors and then shaking loose from the trees occurs.  However, that is a topic for another day.  We’re still in color changing territory.  We are a couple of weeks from them falling to the ground en masse.  Perhaps I’ll wax poetic about it then. No, the Leafs (sic) I refer to in the subject refer to the Maple Leafs of Toronto.  Their collective fall coming at the hand of my New Jersey Devils.

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