Word: diehardism
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...team--the New York Jets. But I was never a diehard fan, especially after they moved to New Jersey. It wasn't just their ineptitude--the Mets and Knicks were not exactly paragons of eptitude, and I've always loved them. It was the way they lost that got me so disgruntled. Too frustrating, too stupid and too boring. The Mets and Knicks could lose in their own funny ways and I'd still be as gruntled as ever...
Fortunately, there are enough diehard fans or lucky souls already on intersession that most of us can hold our own when we venture out of Cambridge next weekend. For those of you who were locked in a library yesterday, for those who still say "Einstein" instead of "Bill Walsh" when asked to name a genius, a little research into yesterday's happenings in Miami would be in order. And I don't mean the riots in Overtown...
Remember Brian Wilson? The guy who lost his legs trying to stop nuclear weapons from being transported by train? Well, 20 diehard fans are squatting on the tracks at North and South Station. They won't let any trains...
Saturday's Harvard-University of Massachusetts football game was like a battery advertisement. Both teams were able to keep their engines running for a half, but only UMass, old diehard, could finish the game with juice still left...
...Olympic coverage to a record 179 hours, NBC has eliminated the The Today Show, The Tonight Show and Late Night with David Letterman from its lineup for two weeks, in addition to the entire prime time schedule and 4 to 5 p.m. daily. This is simply too much. No diehard Olympic fan could even dream of watching all this coverage. And once you've missed a little of the action, it becomes easier and easier to miss the whole show...