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Today’s Blog Post
Go Rough Riders Go!
The weirdest thing is… after being away from Saskatchewan for 12 years, and maybe even 45 years when I first left, we still cheer for them. It is our team… our roots… our home province’s team. WOW!
Today is the Grey Cup Game in Edmonton. It will be cold and almost impossible to sit through the ordeal. Yet all of Saskatchewan will be cheering for the Rough Riders Football Team!
This is crazy. Why do I do this? Why do other people do this kind of thing? What kind of mind control is there happening inside of my head… and the heads of all Canadians?
I mean most of the team members are from the United States or America. Hardly any – if any are from Saskatchewan.
Yet we call it our team.
And many people in Canada call it their team whether they lived in Saskatchewan at one time or NEVER!
And like myself, who was born and bread in good old Saskatchewan, it has been so long since I could called it my home province… well.. I shouldn’t! I have lived in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick far more years than Saskatchewan! I am from these other places… including Hong Kong!
Today as I look at the strange phenomena of ‘team sports cheering’ – where we root for a team that we call ours… I scratch my head in wonder. It doesn’t make sense at all.
I have friends in Peterborough that cheer for Soccer Teams in Britain and some parts of Europe. They will never get to a game it is too far away. They hardly ever see it on TV… the local station never carries it. Yet – they are ardent fans for a team they have never seen. WHY?
Is it something that we have eaten that has caused our brains to be so brain washed? So obsessed with our team winning – doesn’t make sense at all!
Yet – tonight I will join some ardent Saskatchewan Rough Rider Fans – in Ontario – to cheer them on as if I am sitting in the Edmonton football stadium. It will be warmer… but we will be there for our team.
Now if they lose we will still be fans of the Rough Riders… even if they do something stupid like they did last year, in the same situation, at the last minute… with too many men on the field… and the other opposition team - Montreal, which is the same team playing the Riders as last year, win… we will still be Rough Rider Fans.
We are the loosely knit Rider Nation!
Now I know that my genetic power inside of me is more powerful than anything… my daughter, who has never been to a Rough Rider game, conceived in Quebec, born in New Brunswick and lived all over the world… is cheering for the Rough Riders!
Oh Boy!
Go Rough Riders! We are with you all the way to Peterborough Ontario AND around the world! Wahoooo!
~ Murray Lincoln ~
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