Jazz Playoffs

This morning, one of the columnists for the, Tribune wrote about all the stuff we have missed while the Jazz were in the playoffs. Most of it was BS. Eight pages of Jazz coverage everyday? Really? You could find that much to write about?

I could see, "Tattoo Magazine" covering this team this much, but eight pages, every day? Really? You treated them like they actually had a chance to beat the, Lakers or EVER have a chance to win an NBA title. I don't watch the NBA, but I know it's fixed. And the winner is...

Always in a big, media market!

The WWE is only SLIGHTLY less controlled than the NBA.

But what the columnist, and I can't remember if it was the guy who's a BYU cheerleader, or the guy who's brother is a shitty college football coach, over looked was the entire NHL playoffs. Which this year, has been particularly interesting.

Knowing that hockey will not get coverage in this town until hockey rinks replace basketball courts in the local church's chapels, I know us fans will be treated like second class citizens. Our needs don't count.

But has anyone in the, alleged, SPORTS department at the, Trib noticed that the Montreal Canadians (it's a town in Canada, guys. And they have more Championships than any other pro franchise. The Yankee's are close, might have caught up. I'm not sure) started as an 8 seed and knocked off, Alex Ovechkin and the, Washington Capitals, who were the, President's Cup winner this year? Oh, the, President's Cup goes to the team with the best regular season record in the NHL. I know you moron's won't know that.

Then, in the second round, knocked off last year's Stanley Cup winner. Bet no one in the Sports department knows it was the Pittsburgh Penguins.

The San Jose Sharks advanced past the second round in the playoffs for the first time in team history. Beat the, Redwings in five games.

And Versus blacked out Utah for the Coyotes home games against the Redwings on Direct TV. No one wrote an article on THAT! WTF? They can black out by zip code. Why did they do it by TIME ZONE?

Now, I'm going to tell you why the Jazz will never, ever, win a Championship, of any kind. When, Larry Miller bought the franchise, he hated hockey. But he had to swallow hard, and pick up the tab on, The Salt Lake Golden Eagles. Which was one of the most successful franchises in the history of minor league hockey.

He built his new arena with no sight lines for hockey. Instead of knowing that the hockey team could bring in revenew on the nights that the basketball team was out of town, he thought they competed for revenew WITH the basketball team. Bullshit. Hockey fans don't want to see sissy boys in their underwear put a ball through a hoop. A trained seal can do that.

Hockey fans want to see guys skate hard, hit hard, and score. And good saves are as cool as good goals.

The only Championships won in the old, Salt Palace were by the, Golden Eagles, and the ABA's, Utah Stars. Which, let's face it, were a minor league team, too.

Then, Miller opened the, Delta Center. The Golden Eagles played there one year, before he sold them. The next year, the, Denver Grizzlies became the Utah Grizzlies when the Quebec Nordiques of the NHL moved to Denver. That year, the Grizz beat the Orlando Solar Bears in the fourth game of a best of seven series to win the International Hockey League Championship. The Turner Cup.

The Grizz then moved to the E Center in Worst Valley City, and hockey in this town has never been the same.

So, LHM is responsible for killing a great hockey team, and the ghost's of those guys will never, ever, let his basketball team win a Championship. For time and all eternity, the Jazz will be an also ran.

You want to break the curse, Jazz fans? Convince Miller's son to tear down the ESA, and he and, Brett Checketts build a new arena on the same spot, which accommodates hockey. In ALL the seats, and, Checketts moves the St. Louis Blues, which he owns, and have always struggled financially, to Salt Lake. And they become The Salt Lake Golden Eagles of the NHL!

This is the only way the Jazz will ever be a champion of anything. They have to break the curse of, "Boycott Miller, The Eagle Killer".