When I was young I always lived in a city with a great team. I was a young girl and I grew up in Edmonton with the Oilers and Gretzky. Hockey is a way of life in Canada.Then when I was 7 I moved to Toronto, and while the Maple Leafs are surely an institution, nothing was better than when the Toronto Blue Jays won back-to-back world series' in 1992-1993.
The first year we filled the streets. For whatever reason the city didn't see it coming. The public service operators paniked. The subway and buses closed. Cab drivers shut-off their engines. Bars and restaurants closed shop early. It was havoc. Fun havoc, but havoc nonetheless.
It took me over four hours to get home, with a walk from college and young, up the hill of Castle Loma all the way to Spadina and Eglinton at which time I called my mom from my friend's house at 4:00 am (I woke her up, of course) and asked if she would come pick me up. I was only 15 at the time, boy was she pissed-off! She still came, and I didn't get in trouble.
Those moments are a special part of my memories - they will stay with me forever. I remember them because they are a part of what it meant to be a teenager in Toronto in the 1990s, because my this is how I love to remember my friends and how I like to remember my mom - kind and forgiving. I will tell my grandchildren about that night - what the people were like, how the team played and how much fun my friends and I had. I am still friends with all those same people, and it will be a great way for me to share with my family.
Do you have a great sports story like this? Perhaps you have a great memory of one of your friends or family having their own great moment (i.e.; hitting their first ball). Do you have some awesome sports videos to go along with it? If you do, upload the video to Sports Vids and share it with everyone - preserve it forever. Then, like me, you can share your story and your online sports video with your family and friends and know that it is safely archived.
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