Dedication

Its the most wonderful time of the year. NBA has started and the NFL is still going. What more could a sports fan want? This particular post I want to talk about where my love of sports started and how it has grown over the years.

I was born and raised a Utah Jazz fan until I moved to Arizona at about age 11, which is where I started to gain my own opinion about the sport of basketball. I fell in love with Steve Nash and the Phoenix Suns. This was a great time to fall in love with this particular team because they were a power house. Mike D' Antoni was coach of the year, Steve Nash won 2 MVPs in a row and they had players like Amare Stoudemire, Raja Bell, Leandro Barbosa, Boris Diaw, and Shawn Marion. This was THE team to watch.

After living in Arizona and coming back to Salt Lake City, I stayed true to my Phoenix Suns. I still thought of the Jazz as my second favorite team but when it came to the suns...they were MY team.
This is where the idea of my blog first originated because from this point on, I became one of the boys. I would get into arguments and bet on the latest game with all of my brothers and his friends. Although I did play some junior Jazz basketball when I was younger, I didn't fully understand the sport until about middle school.

When high school rolled around, one might think I would join the basketball team or the volleyball team..nope. Just the opposite actually. I joined the cheerleading team so I could watch all of the action front row. I started loving football my sophomore year when we went to the state finals and I got to cheer for the varsity team at rice-eccles stadium. Our football team had about 3 potential NFL players and it was so much fun to get into the sport. When basketball rolled around, it was so much fun cheering for my own brother and his friends on the team as well.

After cheer ended and I graduated from high school, sports were takin to another level when I went to the U of U and joined the MUSS. College sports were so much more intense but I did miss being on the sideline. It was time for me to get a job so, naturally, I got a job at the local sports grill so I would never miss out on a game.

My dedication to the Suns won't ever really leave me but it was very hard this last year when Steve Nash decided to join my least favorite team in the league. Lucky for me, I got to meet him when he played his last game with the Suns in the spring. I actually waited at his hotel for 4 hours and got to meet the whole team. Some call it stalking, I call it dedication ;)