The spiral down... it's dark in here! I don't know what to do?! We've never actually won before! Sweetness, joy! I am so about to pop it's unBEElievable. Ok I was sure we were done after the Pujols homer. Even though I/we have had years of training with countless clutch losses, Astros 86, Oilers v. Bills, Phi Slamma Jamma! The Pujoles home run just crushed me. I couldn't even work right the next day! Now we actually do not choke and ... uncharted territory! Ahhhhhh soak it in just enjoy it. I didn't want to miss anything last night I had to be up at 4 this morning but I was just not wanting to miss anything...1am bed. Before that... I heard that Academy would open if the Astros had won to sell pennant t-shirts and the like. I had the bright idea of driving down there, I thought eh... there will be some crowds but it will be ok. I'll fight a little but I'll have me a tshirt that says champion! On the way Angie calls me and tells me turn around they just showed the stores open and the East Side store is not on the list. I decided let me call just to be sure. Two idiot 411 operators and still no answer, ahhh screw it almost there by now... I crest the overpass and WTF there is a traffic jam at the exit ramp, light and into the parking lot! No scratch that it got to be some high scrool hang out or something there is just tooooo many people for this, plus look at that crowd of people in the parking lot of the Whataburger (same parking lot as Academy, Sam's Club, Circuit City and Home Depot)... I press on, people are hollaring and honking horns... and that crowd, uh no try 1/2 mile long line waiting to get in to Academy! HOLY CRAP! I turned around. For those who know where I'm talking about the line wound through the parking lot all the pay to the Whataburger. I am not talking single file here either! It was a crowd, and the parking lot... I was going to have to park at east side of the Home Depot!
...anyway, Astros fans soak it in... this was 44 years inthe making, smell it, sip it, swish it around, then drink like it's the last drop you'll ever get because who knows when it happens again!
