Team Loyalty

Sitting tonight with CC, watching Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals, with the Boston Bruins and the Vancouver Canucks all tied up at 3 game a piece, and I got to wondering: when in a relationship, which team to you cheer for?

I know couples that have been together for a long, long time and generally get along very very well. But when it comes to their individual sports teams, gloves come off and its no holes barred. And on the other side of things, I know couples that have matching unitards in "their" teams colors. So which way is the right way to go?

In talking with CC, she outlined that the success to any long term relationship (as demonstrated with her parents 20 year marriage), is that you have 2 tv's, with 2 separate connections (cable or satelite) and at least 1 independent vacation from each other per year. My grandparents kind of follow along the same lines, although, my grandmother is especially gifted in blocking out anything to do with sports...but I guess thats a hazard of living with 5 boys.

I ponder this because a small dilemma with my choice in teams for tonight's game. I started watching the game, knowing full well that I was going to be cheering for Boston...its not that I have loyalty to the team, they just played the best out of the series and thus earned my support (I've come along way...I used to cheer for teams based on cuteness of players or team colors that I liked). Welder mouse on the other hand was cheering for Vancouver, and has been since the rest of the Canadian teams were knocked out of the series.

I tried to come up with a number of different circumstances to possibly explain away whom I was cheering for if the time came. CC just laughed at me, and called me on the BS answers I was coming up with.

May be in the long run, who you cheer for as a sports team should be filed under "don't go there" along with politics and religion when in mixed company. And I totally dig the 2 tv's with separate connections idea too...that way when welder mouse wants to watch "Skating with the Stars" (cause that's what people cheering for Vancouver should be watching), I can turn on UFC.