The biggest problem with my last website is that most readers didn’t know anything about me and more importantly where my sports allegiances lie. This time I wanted to give a little bit of background information about me.
My name is David Bluver and right now I’m 21 years old. For the early years of my life I lived outside of Washington D.C, but for the most part I’ve lived in New York my entire life. After high school I moved to central Pennsylvania to start a small steel company and live a moderate life of small means and a big heart… Just kidding, I was actually lucky enough to get into Penn State University for my supposed “strong academic achievements.”
For the first two years I was at Penn State I was part of the Division of Undergraduate Studies. This is basically a school for people who have no idea what they want to do with their lives. Before my Junior year I was forced by my advisor to make a decision on the direction that I wanted to go. When I finally decided I found myself in the school of communications studying advertising. Advertising is something that I actually enjoy and it’s what I will probably end up working in when I graduate. Am I going to be doing that the rest of my life? I guess we will just have to wait and see.
As far as sports go I would like to consider myself a New York sports guy. The only Problem with that is my favorite baseball team isn’t from New York. People like to give me a lot of crap for this when they really just don’t understand the whole story. So to start off, I’m going to explain why for my entire life I’ve been a die hard Boston Red Sox fan.
BASEBALL:
This whole thing started 30 years before I was even alive. The year was 1967 and the Red Sox had just come off one of their worst seasons ever by finishing in dead last. By a dramatic turn of events the Red Sox stunned the baseball world by winning the American League that year, and 1967 would forever be known as “the impossible dream season.” Not only was this good for baseball but it reinvigorated the city of Boston. During his childhood my father constantly moved back and forth from Boston to New York and happened to be in Boston that same year. His dad took him to game 7 of the world series and my father fell in love with the Red Sox that day.
Now you might be asking yourself the question, “okay, so what does any of that have to do with you?” Well, if your family is anything like mine then you’d know that I was basically groomed to be a Red Sox fan since I came out of the womb. I wasn’t allowed to be a fan of anyone else, let alone the freaking Yankees. Besides all of that, I lived in Virginia till I was eight. There aren’t really any good sports teams there (GO NATIONALS!) so it was just easier for me to like all the teams that my dad did. You can give me all the crap you want for being a Sox fan and living in New York, but when it comes down to it I really don’t care.
FOOTBALL:
Yea, our players go out to the club at night and shoot themselves in the leg, SO WHAT? As long as you produce on the field I don’t care what the hell you do with your life. I’m not going to lie though, I’m not sure I’m ready to usher in the Hakeem Nicks era just yet. It’s one thing to loose an all pro receiver but to replace him with an unproven rookie? I’m not liking Eli’s targets this year. Lets hope that we wont be seeing a lot of these this coming season.
BASKETBALL:
Right now I currently have a love hate relationship with the New York Knickerbockers. I love the fact that they’re one of the most storied franchises in professional sports. I love the fact that they play in one of the most famous arenas in the world. I love the energy in New York when they’re relevant. There really isn’t anything like it. But you know what I don’t love about the Knicks?The fact that they’ve been a complete embarrassment for the past ten years and I can’t remember the last time I was actually excited about an upcoming season. The Knicks are like that fat kid in your group of friends. You tell everybody that you like him, but every time you see him you cringe in disgust because in reality you just can’t stand him. That’s how I feel about this Knicks team. Two years from now though, everything will change with the arrival of King James.
Hockey:
Let’s be honest here. If you asked me to name five players on The Rangers that start I wouldn’t be able to do it. The NHL lost me so many years ago and it would take a miracle to bring me back. The other night The Red Wings and The Ducks were in a double over time game that I happened to catch while I was flipping through the channels. I don’t know what it was but I couldn’t even watch. The only people who actually care about hockey are Canadians and people from Philadelphia. Enough said.
WNBA:
I HATE THE WNBA MORE THEN ANYTHING IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. I would rather die a slow death then having to be subjected to watching an entire women’s basketball game. The UCONN huskies just went undefeated this past year in women’s college basketball. Guess what? Nobody cares! It doesn’t really matter though. The WNBA is bankrupt and it will probably fold within the next two years. Great job David Stern! The WNBA was your greatest idea ever!
