this is...the best day, ever. okay no...not ever. it's the best day since.......it's just a really good day! and why? because, at 7:30pm, my boys are coming back to the ice!!! WHOO HOO!!!!!
my goodness how i've missed my sabres. you see, i'm not that big of a sports girl. i know squat about football, find baseball boring, won't even give basketball the time of day - but hockey? oooh hockey. the day my child is born i'm going to start saving up for equipment in hopes he will be my little sabres wanna be. i LOVE buffalo hockey!
my obsession started shortly after exiting the womb. in fact, my very first memory EVER is of watching the sabres play. i was being held by my dad, in our old recliner, drinking milk (i'm assuming from a bottle - all i remember is the taste of milk) and watching the sabres play on tv at night, with no other lights on in the room. til this day, when i watch sabres games at night - in this same way, i crave milk. conditioned much?
growing up i could take it or leave it, really. i was more interested in dolls. i had like 20 of them, and i'd pray to God every night to make them come alive. but as time went on, i was pulled back in. somewhere in the 90's, i became interested again. and when i was in 7th grade (hmm, roughly 11 or 12 years old), i became obsessed. aaand that's about where it stands today.
some of my very best memories are of sabres games. house parties during playoffs. i, of course, was one of the many who stayed up all night watching the multiple overtimes & no goal mishap many seasons ago. the whole neighborhood was awake & would step outside for a drink between overtimes. i remember going to multiple home openers (which, i'm sad about not being there for this year, but give me a couple more years and i won't miss another one!).
my goodness how i've missed my sabres. you see, i'm not that big of a sports girl. i know squat about football, find baseball boring, won't even give basketball the time of day - but hockey? oooh hockey. the day my child is born i'm going to start saving up for equipment in hopes he will be my little sabres wanna be. i LOVE buffalo hockey!
my obsession started shortly after exiting the womb. in fact, my very first memory EVER is of watching the sabres play. i was being held by my dad, in our old recliner, drinking milk (i'm assuming from a bottle - all i remember is the taste of milk) and watching the sabres play on tv at night, with no other lights on in the room. til this day, when i watch sabres games at night - in this same way, i crave milk. conditioned much?
growing up i could take it or leave it, really. i was more interested in dolls. i had like 20 of them, and i'd pray to God every night to make them come alive. but as time went on, i was pulled back in. somewhere in the 90's, i became interested again. and when i was in 7th grade (hmm, roughly 11 or 12 years old), i became obsessed. aaand that's about where it stands today.
some of my very best memories are of sabres games. house parties during playoffs. i, of course, was one of the many who stayed up all night watching the multiple overtimes & no goal mishap many seasons ago. the whole neighborhood was awake & would step outside for a drink between overtimes. i remember going to multiple home openers (which, i'm sad about not being there for this year, but give me a couple more years and i won't miss another one!).
my lovely friend shmoe came to this game as well. this is one of my faaavorite pictures of us everrr.
speaking of shmoe! her birthday was yesterday, and ironically enough - a packaged arrived for ME on HER birthday (from her, duh). shmoe, if you are reading this, THANK YOU!!!! you totally read my mind with the window stickies (it's that twin thing), and the clothes for goop are ADORABLE! i am so so in love with the tigger one. there are few people in this world who know how excited i get over tigger!!
i'll post pictures of that loot later on, but....i saw her face and had to mention it. back to sabres praise!!
one of my very favorite memories of the sabres is from this year's new years day ice bowl! so, yeah....we lost. boo. we lost in typical buffalo fashion (losing in typical buffalo fashion = there's no reason we should have lost, and it was one of those games we needed to win, but buffalo can find a way to loose). but i'll tell you what. if i knew we'd loose ahead of time, i'd still do it all over again! it was such a fantastic day. and i say that, even though i was sick & outside in 30 degree weather all day long. it was really that great of an experience. (the picture above is husband & i all decked out in our sabres gear, shortly before tailgating. below is the whole fam, tailgating our hearts out. notice the snooow.)
if you have no idea what i'm talking about, here's a quick run down. basically...they took our football stadium (the bills) and plopped an ice rink down right in the middle of the field. it was a totally outdoor NHL hockey game (the first one in american history - they did do this in canada before). there were over 71,000 people in attendance. do you know how insane that is for a hockey game?! it was just so so so amazing to be there, in the middle of making history. it snowed steadily all day and it was just absolutely gorgeous in only-a-buffalonian-can-get-it way.
you see? beauty. gosh that was such a great day. i wish we could have the opportunity to host another ice bowl (or as the NHL calls it, "winter classic"). but...we probably won't be so lucky. i hear the only reason we "won" the first one, is because we had the most merchandise sales the year before. but - i think that's to be expected, because we changed jerseys that year & everyone had to re-buy them.
well. here is to, hopefully, a wonderful season. though our team's been tested with the loss of briere and drury (waaaahhh i still miss them), we have a brand spakin' new captain this year - and maybe he'll bring us back to #1. yay for hockey!
GO SABRES!!!!
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