2005 was a total waste of a year

So my step-mom has a tradition that we all partake in on New Years each year. We write things we would like to do or accomplish in the next year on piece of paper which is then sealed for 364 days. A New Years resolution of sorts. So at my dad's new years/christmas festival she decideds to bust out the sealed envelopes. To be honest I didn't acccomplish much in this last year, so I was pretty afraid to open my letter to read in detail all of my failures. Everyone was given the option of reading aloud or keeping private their vows for 2005. I was trying to stall looking in this envelope but I knew I had better get it over with. The first part was the usual shit people resolve to do. But then I read a rather ironic statement that I wrote a year ago which had oviously had not come true. It was both painful and comical at the same time.

I wrote that I want to be in St. Louis in early April to watch the Jayhawks cut the nets down against the Deputy Dog and North Carolina. Wow, nothing further from that could have happened. It is true, in fact, that I did drive to St. Louis to watch the final four. I could not pass up the opportunity to watch the incredible event when it was only a short 5 hour drive from my home. I did end up going there, but it was with a total flake of a girl (different story for another time). But I went there to watch my former coach win the national championship, something he could never do with Kansas. That's like an ex girlfriend going on to date your best friend, and you have to sit there and watch them cuddle. And if this wasn't bad enough, my team took a total face plant in the first round against 14th seeded Bucknell. This was a Kansas team that was expected to make the final four at the very least with a senior laden team and multiple mcdonalds all americans. The embarassment that followed that game will never leave me. It ranks right up there with losing to Arizona and Rhode Island. Being a Kansas fan is really tough, believe me.


Not only did Kansas suffer one of the most ridiculously embarassing losses in sports history in 05, but my 2nd favorite time, the KC Chiefs got totally jobbed out of the playoffs today. How can a team go 10-6 in the NFL and not make the playoffs. We ended with the same record as the Patriots, beat them head to head, have a better AFC record than them, yet they go to the playoffs and not us by the virtue of them winning their weak ass division. That shit's messed up.


Here's to lowering expectations in 06 to avoid heartbreak.