Life in the Slow Lane

What’s Spectacular About Spectating?

Watching the Salisbury-Bangor championship game brought out an old competitive streak. But what’s the draw of pro sports teams?

  As a softball player in high school, I had a competitive streak a mile wide and took to making deals with God during close games.  I’d tell God that if only we could win THIS game, he could have my bicycle, my guitar and -- during one county championship – my brother. My mother, who knew about these deals, said she was afraid if we ever made it to a state final, she and my father would – poof – disappear from the stands.  That competitive drive receded a bit after college but resurfaces at times like last Friday when the Salisbury Falcons played the Bangor Slaters for the Colonial League Boys Varsity Basketball championship at Freedom High School.  My kids go to Salisbury and I’ve watched some of the players grow up. Amid the thunderous …

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