Why you should become a Blazers fan
Jeff Trousdale
Issue date: 11/13/08 Section: Sports
"We're easy to root for because we are young and we play hard every game."
4. Rudy Fernandez may be the sexiest man in the NBA. Come on ladies, he's from Spain, he has perfectly groomed facial hair, his jump shot is beyond reproach and he's a millionaire. What more could you ask for?
5. The Blazer Dancers. After seeing them up close and talking with some of them for the first time, I can tell you one thing; this is the most intelligent dance squad in all of professional sports. Seriously, all I was thinking was "check out the intellect on her … smoking."
6. They are only going to get better; this is the second youngest team in the NBA, and already many hail them as the next potential dynasty team in the NBA.
Jump on the bandwagon while you still live in Portland, otherwise people will just call you a front-runner.
7. Brandon Roy, Lamarcus Aldridge, and Greg Oden; Boston's big three is too far away, San Antonio's big three is too boring and no one else's big three has a seven-foot tall center with a dog named Charles Barkley McLovin.
8. Kevin Pritchard; if this guy isn't the NBA executive of the year it will be proof that Osama Bin Laden is still on the loose and he is in charge of the voting for the award. If you're not a Blazer's fan it's likely that the team you are a fan of has been Pritch-Slapped at some point in the last few years.
9. They're involved in the community; Channing Frye is a spokesperson for the Oregon chapter of the MS society, Oden has a charity called Oregon Mentors and Steve Blake runs a local basketball camp for kids. Those are just a few examples from a team that's comprised of genuinely caring guys.
10. Who else are you going to root for? Half of you are from Washington, which means you no longer have an NBA team, and probably won't be getting one anytime soon. All you Hawaii natives have never had a professional team in any sport, and for you Coloradans, I guess if I liked excessive neck tattoos, sucker punches and bloated contracts, I'd be a fan too.
?Jeff Trousdale is a staff writer for The Beacon. He can be contacted at ?trousdale11@up.edu
4. Rudy Fernandez may be the sexiest man in the NBA. Come on ladies, he's from Spain, he has perfectly groomed facial hair, his jump shot is beyond reproach and he's a millionaire. What more could you ask for?
5. The Blazer Dancers. After seeing them up close and talking with some of them for the first time, I can tell you one thing; this is the most intelligent dance squad in all of professional sports. Seriously, all I was thinking was "check out the intellect on her … smoking."
6. They are only going to get better; this is the second youngest team in the NBA, and already many hail them as the next potential dynasty team in the NBA.
Jump on the bandwagon while you still live in Portland, otherwise people will just call you a front-runner.
7. Brandon Roy, Lamarcus Aldridge, and Greg Oden; Boston's big three is too far away, San Antonio's big three is too boring and no one else's big three has a seven-foot tall center with a dog named Charles Barkley McLovin.
8. Kevin Pritchard; if this guy isn't the NBA executive of the year it will be proof that Osama Bin Laden is still on the loose and he is in charge of the voting for the award. If you're not a Blazer's fan it's likely that the team you are a fan of has been Pritch-Slapped at some point in the last few years.
9. They're involved in the community; Channing Frye is a spokesperson for the Oregon chapter of the MS society, Oden has a charity called Oregon Mentors and Steve Blake runs a local basketball camp for kids. Those are just a few examples from a team that's comprised of genuinely caring guys.
10. Who else are you going to root for? Half of you are from Washington, which means you no longer have an NBA team, and probably won't be getting one anytime soon. All you Hawaii natives have never had a professional team in any sport, and for you Coloradans, I guess if I liked excessive neck tattoos, sucker punches and bloated contracts, I'd be a fan too.
?Jeff Trousdale is a staff writer for The Beacon. He can be contacted at ?trousdale11@up.edu