Yeah, I gotta give it up to the Pens. It seemed they wanted it a little more, the multiple off sides calls for the Wings meant they were disorganized. They even took Crosby out from 2nd period on, but the rest of the team picked up the slack.
I was embarrassed when the fans started booing during the ceremony. The national media takes a diarrhea dump on us already, the last thing we want to be viewed as is sore losers. I expected most of the fans to leave the building, but hey, its not every day you get to see Lord Stanley up close and personal.
Maybe because of that loss, downtown was a virtual ghost town the next day. We're hosting the Red Bull Air Race; I would've thought that would attract some out-of-towners, but nope, me and a friend went to pub after bar after club, only to find scarce amounts of people. Only an after-hours spot that I go every now and again had a good crowd.
Though I'm sure downtown/southside Pittsburgh did not have that same problem
The rest of my family doesn't like Crosby because of this TV commercial he did earlier in the season. It showed a still shot of the Pens from last year when they lost in the finals looking really upset.
There was once commercial that was interesting was the one where they show a young Crosby wearing a Lemieux jersey, watching them play on a semi-old school TV, and then it pans to a trophy saying "1995 AAA Crosby" or whatever. Then it pans to a to a kid today wearing a Crosby jersey watching the game on a HDTV. I forgot what they were selling, but it did tug at my heartstrings...
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