Lunkhead wrote: I love our teams here in Philly, but wonder if I'll see another championship in my lifetime.
Maybe I should feel lucky, I've seen several championships. Let's see, Tigers in '68 & '84, Pistons twice in early 90's, Detroit Vipers hockey, an arena football chamionship and womans pro basketball championship.
The most memorial are the three Redwing championships '98 '99 '02 and Pistons in '04. The reason that I enjoyed those most of all is because I lived in Royal Oak at the time. There was at least 50,000 fans in downtown RO celebrating after clinching, I was among them during those 4 championships.
Wow, I'll never forget all the folks, young and old, celebrating, hanging out of car windows, store windows, rooftops, waving banners and flags, every corner had a "homemade" Stanley cup or basket ball trophys.
Imprinted into my memory is the sweet smell of ozone. That gets produced by all the car horns blowing and, of course, burning out. TV stations all had remote crews getting swampted by jubliant fans, helicopters circling overhead, fireworks going off here and there.
People dressed up like their favorite sports star, traffic jammed up moving slowly, a hot lady in an evening dress stands on the roof of a limo waving a newspaper declaring "Championship!" and the crowd going wild!
When a championship gets won in this town, everybody comes out of the woodwork to celebrate and man alive, it's alot of fun to watch and participate in. Since '84 Tiger celebration when some idiot set a car on fire, everything has been perfectly safe, family friendly and with no arrests to speak of.
Of course its devastating when the pistons were just one basket and 9 seconds from another championship and lose it, or last year when the Tigers Cinderela story imploded in the world series. I guess that is what makes those championships all the more special.
Maybe someday you'll be celebrating a championship, if those Eagles win it all, i'll be celebrating with you too.
DK