Painful Television

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Craig Chamberlain

Painful Television
Oct 1, 2003

Tommorow night my West Virginia Mountaineers will take on the Miami Hurricanes. I am not used to writiing it like that, I usually put an explitive befor miami. You see there aren't really enough words in the english language to describe how much I hate the hurricanes. Some would call it pathological or irrational, I call it good football sense.

Now if I wanted to take the path of least resistance I would be a Hurricane fan. They always win and are always in contention for the national title. It is a different story with the mountaineers. They have only won one game this season and that was against the hapless east carolina Pirates. It is painful rooting for a team like the mountaineers. It will be especially painful tommorrow night. I have no illusions about how the game will be. It will probably 28-0 or 35-0 nothing at halftime. I will have used my entire vocabulary of swear words by the end of the first quarter, and that is a large vocabulary. But like a masochist enjoying pain I will probably watch anyway, knowing that my team has no chance of even keeping it close. I know that it will be a slaughter and that the Mountaineers will be embarassed on television yet again.

That is what being a fan is. It is watching the unwatchable. Seeing your favorite team go down in flames, to a team you absolutely despise, and knowing that it is going to happen ahead of time. It will probably get physically painful to watch. Yet, I watch anyway.

Maybe I can save myself the utter misery and will forget the game is on. Or something will come up. Otherwise I will be in front of the TV wishing death to the Miami football team.

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