My home town made it on SportsCenter!
I suppose that's better than the time they were on America's Most Wanted. Also, the Geraldo thing wasn't great publicity, either.
So, Erie Pennsylvania isn't exactly a mecca of sports. Sure, there are minor league teams for most of the major sports, there's a racetrack nearby, and bowling used to be a big deal, but in terms of major professional sporting events happening, you're in the wrong town.
ESPN's sports highlight and analysis show, "SportsCenter," tends to focus on the major leagues and highest level of college sports. As such, minor league teams and DIII colleges don't usually see a lot of play coming out of Bristol. This changes occasionally when a truly remarkable play happens, somebody managed to record a video of it, and the editing gurus at ESPN get ahold of it. It's somewhat rare, but it happens.
Towards the end of an episode of SportsCenter, they show a segment called "Top Ten" in which they show you, not surprisingly, what they believe to be the ten best plays of the day's events. Well, yesterday, one of the ten best plays in sports happened in sunny Erie, PA. During the basketball game between local colleges Mercyhurst and Gannon, one of the Mercyhurst players made a Pretty Impressive Dunk through traffic and basically right over some poor schmuck's head. By all accounts, the rest of the game was a total disgrace, with the final score being 44-36. That's not important, though...since that dunk was one of the ten sporting highlights of the day.
True story: When I was in high school, Mercyhurst college actually hired me to be in their pep band for basketball games. During one game, the ref came over to the band and threatened to call a technical foul on us. Had something to do with a gong and one of the opponent's players shooting free throws.
No comments:
Post a Comment