11-04-2010, 04:11 PM
Go Giants! Â Fear the Beard! Â Fear the Freak! Â Sweet Torture. Â Don\'t Mess With SF! Â Don\'t Bet Against These MiSFits! Â My Life Is Now Complete.
Just a few of the signs I saw in the million or more people on the streets of SF yesterday. Â Ticker tape downtown on the same route the team took in 1958 when they arrived. Â
I\'ve been celebrating since Monday night when all of us at the Valley Tavern on 24th went absolutely nuts with joy. Â I believe there were victory shots and lots of them, but I can\'t verify much that happened after that. Â I\'ve been an honest to goodness die-hard Giants fan my entire life so this is tough to match. Â My brother and I just ran around the streets yelling and high fiving strangers. I may have stopped by my office on Tuesday afternoon, but realized that my career prospects were actually better if I just took my hungover carcas back to my house. Â My first Rose Bowl in 2000 was special, but this was bigger for me. Â
As for Saturday, I\'ll be there. Â I\'m trying to get my friends in the area more excited about getting tickets, but the truth is, even though they are alums and live in the area, they are just not sports fans. Â They are happy when the team wins and they go to a game every year or two, but they don\'t have the fever. Â One friend has a kid who is getting really interested and it seems that he and I will be able to convince them to commit the time to getting season tickets and actually going to the games. Â
Go Stanford!
Cheers,
Pete F.
Just a few of the signs I saw in the million or more people on the streets of SF yesterday. Â Ticker tape downtown on the same route the team took in 1958 when they arrived. Â
I\'ve been celebrating since Monday night when all of us at the Valley Tavern on 24th went absolutely nuts with joy. Â I believe there were victory shots and lots of them, but I can\'t verify much that happened after that. Â I\'ve been an honest to goodness die-hard Giants fan my entire life so this is tough to match. Â My brother and I just ran around the streets yelling and high fiving strangers. I may have stopped by my office on Tuesday afternoon, but realized that my career prospects were actually better if I just took my hungover carcas back to my house. Â My first Rose Bowl in 2000 was special, but this was bigger for me. Â
As for Saturday, I\'ll be there. Â I\'m trying to get my friends in the area more excited about getting tickets, but the truth is, even though they are alums and live in the area, they are just not sports fans. Â They are happy when the team wins and they go to a game every year or two, but they don\'t have the fever. Â One friend has a kid who is getting really interested and it seems that he and I will be able to convince them to commit the time to getting season tickets and actually going to the games. Â
Go Stanford!
Cheers,
Pete F.