For those of you who know me, you’re aware that I’m a big time college football and basketball fan. I normally make annual trips back to Knoxville for Tennessee Volunteers football and this past fall, since I now reside in Dallas, got up to Manhattan Kansas for a K-State game. There’s nothing more exciting to me than the spectacle we know as March Madness. And this past year, the last-second shot enabling Villanova to win the NCAA basketball championship was just a thing of beauty. This year. I did get to attend my first professional football game between Dallas and the Washington Redskins — I can say “Redskins,” right? However, I’ve never attended an NBA game. And truly, NBA isn’t interesting to me until it reaches the conference playoffs.
So, with great interest, I’ve been watching the now-completed Western Conference Championship series between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Golden State Warriors. I have to share a funny story… Monday night my oldest daughter Aubrey — who is not an NBA fan — was confused with the whole Oakland and Golden State thing. She thought Oakland was OKC and could not figure out who Golden State was. Too funny. But I digress…
As you may know, or are about to learn, the Golden State Warriors, the defending NBA champions, came back from a 3-1, best of seven deficit, and won the series Monday night defeating Oklahoma City. For the second game in a row they came back from a big 13-point deficit to win the game. Also this past NBA regular season, Golden State set a new single season record for victories, 73-9, breaking the Chicago Bulls previous 72 game record — and they did so with style in the final game, at home in Oakland.
Now you’re saying, why are you sharing all of this with us Colonel? Well, the lesson is simple. The folks there in the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Area are in love with the Golden State Warriors. They’re winners, champions and in Oracle Arena they set records for decibel levels as they cheered on their blue and gold clad Warriors.