Lost Voice

It had been a while since I had yelled so much at a game. But the stars aligned and all was right with the world. There were almost no visiting fans sitting near me, save for the four old Canadians. They were quickly dispatched by five-year-olds with noise makers though. I have no idea who would have given those kids the idea to point noisemakers at old people though...

There were even fights galore! And the best part of that is the Lightning players were actually winning the fights, and even knocking a few Senators out cold. Hell, even Chris 'The Turtle' Neil got laid out by the Lightning goalie Smith. For that single act of awesome, I take back almost all the bad things I've said about him lately.

I even got to see my first shootout in person and I was so glad the Lightning actually pulled off the win. All that yelling would have been for nothing if they had lost.

And just for some icing on the cake, there was a family of Toronto fans leaving the game (I swear those guys are everywhere) and they had a small kid with them. The family looked up and saw a pack of sad Senator fans waiting to cross the street and they proceeded to tell their son not to stand so close to the Sens fans. I'm no Toronto fan, but that's great parenting if ever I've seen it in action.

Needless to say, I lost my voice from all the hollering and the yelling, but it was totally worth it.

Now if only the Lightning would have played like this a few weeks ago when it actually mattered...

FREEEEDOM!

According to a third grader, Rosa Parks was the first woman arrested. And she created freedom. Teaching is awesome. The end.