Today, during the short period before and after my Sunday nap on Mark’s couch, I cheered for the Ravens. He was cheering for the Patriots.
“I’m cheering for the Ravens,” I stated.
“Why?”
“Mainly because you’re cheering for the Patriots. But also, because I’ve had Edgar Allan Poe’s poem ‘The Raven’ going through my head for years.” Much like the man in the poem, driven to insanity, “The Raven” has been rather incessant in my head for some time.
He had no verbal comment, though I glimpsed the beginning stages of eye-rolling.
My mind immediately went to old and forgotten lore, with tapping at the door.
The Ravens lost, of course.
Being driven to insanity never really helps the game, nor does dropping THE BALL AT THE CRUCIAL MOMENT WITH LESS THAN A MINUTE IN THE GAME.
Gee.
And so I had to suffer through the annoyance of “your team lost ha ha.”
I don’t even care about the game, or the team, save for the fact that they were Ravens and, importantly, that their black pants looked weird next to the other team’s uniform.
As you can tell, I’m a huge football fan.
Speaking of uniforms and football, the Seattle Seahawks “green” uniform is one of the ugliest uniforms ever worn by a football team. I will cheer for anybody who plays against them. Go to this this link (go to the bottom of the page) to see what I mean:
http://www.greenartmag.com/HawksUnis.html#2008
The guys in the photo look thrilled to be wearing them.
We figured what made the Ravens’ pants look weird was that they were black all the way to the shoe, whereas the other teams tend to have pants to the knee of one color, then the pads and socks and stuff in the black or whatever. The Ravens looked like they were wearing some kind of Lindsey Lohan tights/leggings instead of a sports uniform, because of the solid black pants, and then black socks stuff.
I realize I’m use a lot of technical terms here.
What do they mean by “alternate jersey”? Why would you need an alternate jersey?
Most teams have alternate jerseys. I think this is for two reasons. One, so they can wear a contrasting uniform to whatever the opponent is wearing, Two, so they can sell more merchandise. Two is probably more important. : )
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