Transcendent Moments - Bulls vs. Celtics
Bulls vs. Celtics will be on Saturday night, 7pm. Bill Simmons writes for ESPN – he has up and down columns… mostly down lately… but I think this one is a three point play. Good style. Good substance. Great writing. It’s about more than just the game, the series, the sport – it’s about all sports. About why I love sports – why they can make you stand up and cheer at the TV or make you shrink into the couch and cry. About why we keep watching – no matter how many times a team lets you down, how many times a team will make you think they’ve found their rhythm before stinking it up on the big stage (I’m thinking Cubs, Bears, maybe even the Blackhawks) – despite all that, we keep watching. We tune in on week nights and school nights, weekends and holidays, Saturday afternoons and Monday nights just to get a glimpse of that elusive moment. That transcendent moment. David Tyree catches a ball ON HIS HEAD. Uribe charges hard, with a bare hand, grabs the ball, slings it to first for the out and the CHAMPIONSHIP. Jordan turns to the scorer’s table with a “I don’t know what’s going on” grin. Lance looks at Ullrich and then gets out of the saddle. Noah steals the ball, races Paul Pierce to the other end and throws a FACIAL down. They are out there – they are rare and so few and far between that sometimes we forget about them – but those transcendent moments are out there. And Game 7, Saturday night is sure to be the capstone to this series. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/090501&sportCat=nba From the article »There are many great things about sports, but here’s one of the best: You never know when two teams will click… We love sports for the simple reason that we never know when this will happen. It rarely does. We watch a lot of crummy games. We watch sporting events that had potential to be great and weren’t. We watch sporting events that almost made it, but one dumb thing happened to screw it up: A foul at the wrong time, a penalty, a two-base error, whatever. We keep watching. We keep hoping. And when everything clicks, it’s blissful.
