I was at the Sports Page off 217. I remember going into the bathroom between the 3rd and 4th quarter and I was celebrating. Not only celebrating the win over the Lakers, but celebrating the NBA Championship because I knew we'd fucking KILL Indiana. So, basically, I was taking a piss and celebrating winning the NBA Championship. You could say I was a little upset when the game ended. I did the same thing with the Seahawks vs New England. Celebrating a championship, and boom. Not so much. I need to stop doing that apparently.
I don't even know who we're talking about here, but am royally confused about "hot" and "Michael Jackson" being used in the same sentence...and it having nothing to do with Pepsi.
^^^In that she's wearing too much make-up and has had plastic surgery, I get what you're saying. Also, the deadness of her eyes really reminds me of the Jeff Koons sculpture of MJ and Bubbles:
1) You can't refer to Michael Jackson as MJ while showing a picture of Pippen. 2) Any discussion of disturbing hotness while resembling Michael Jackson is incomplete without a Janet Jackson reference. 3) Unless my memory has royally failed me, I remember Brian Shaw's 3-pt bank shot at the end of the 3rd quarter being the turning point in that game 7. I had a real bad feeling after that. 4) When did the "Jail Blazers" term originate? I thought it came later with Damon/Sheed/Bonzi/Zach/Rider/Qyntel as the core knuckleheads.
My recollection is that it was first coined when JR Rider was on the team, but it was so long ago that my memory could be off.
I was in the 9th floor of the King County Jail downtown Seattle. And I was in for... wait for it..... Possession of less than a gram of marijuana. But for the next hour after that ugly 12 minutes, I was able to be angrier at something else than myself for the situation I was in, which was actually a relief to have something else to foucs on, cause time goes sloooow behind bars. So I have a love hate relationship with those 12 minutes. lol
It's interesting that you have specific memories of that collapse. I remember Shaq dunking and that fucking look on his face, and I remember feeling utterly crushed. But all the other details have been kind of blanked out. I've never watched it again. Kind of scared to. You were more of a Pippen fan than a Blazer fan back then, so maybe it didn't hit so hard?
I have only that specific memory of the game. I don't count the alley-oop because I've seen it replayed as a highlight so many times since then, that I'm not sure if my memory of it is from the game or from the endless depictions of it. The only other memory I have "of the game" is my parents calling me, late in the fourth when the Lakers seemed pretty sure to win, concerned about my mental state, ha. I was pretty invested by then. Possibly not as much as Blazers lifers but actually probably more then than now because as I've gotten older, I've reduced my overall investment in sports across the board. When I was younger, I cared pretty deeply, even though I was new to Blazers fandom. That loss remains one of the deepest disappointments in my sports-watching life--up there with certain 49ers losses, a team I was invested in since around age 4-5. Thinking back, I think that internet forums can kindle an investment much faster, both due to the community you immerse yourself in about the team and due to how quickly you can grow to detest fans of a rival team.
