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Well, you know how gung ho we've been in the Western NY area about our Buffalo Sabres ~ it's all we talked about - around the water cooler, in the grocery store, anywhere we went. All you would see were Sabres flags flying from cars, magnets and posters all over the place. In any given crowd, at least one third of the people were wearing the Sabres blue and gold.
Today, the talk was still the Sabres...but it wasn't the anticipation of tonight's game. It was the disappointment about this past Saturday's game...and how we lost the series. The Ottawa Senators beat us in overtime and it's time for our Sabres to pick up the golf clubs instead of the hockey sticks. We were favored this year to win it all. It's ok - we'll get over it. We always do.
Four Super Bowls with the Buffalo Bills..."wide right" was the closest we ever got to a win. Last year our Sabres got this far as well...and didn't win.
So, even though on Saturday we were all heart broken, by this morning most of us were already looking forward to next year. The team will be different - 6 guys on our team have contracts expiring...even our coach and the general manager have contracts expiring this year.
Sigh.
The one thing I always enjoyed in the morning was our talk radio station - the announcer always said it was the voice of Buffalo to our soldiers in Iraq who were following the Stanley Cup playoffs. And every morning a soldier in Iraq from the Buffalo area would say he or she was cheering on the Sabres. I'll miss that too.
A fellow at work brought in a football this morning - it was funny how he broke the ice. None of us had talked about Saturday's loss until he came in with the football. It was the laugh we needed to get us started. So now, I guess we'll have to start talking about the Buffalo Bills. Training camp starts in just about a month...and by the time football season is barely a month old, the hockey season (we call it the road to the cup) will begin again for us believers.
It was a great ride we had - but I'm staying on the bandwagon - 'cause you just never know.
Blessings,
Sue