A Plea to the Ottawa Senators Hockey Club

December 27th, 2008 | Category: The Men in Red, Your Blogger

How can you resist?

Dear Sens,

I have just gone through a really horrific few days of Christmas travel. My best experience was my flight to Regina on Christmas Eve only being delayed for 2.5 hours. (The one I was supposed to take on the 21st was cancelled after I sat in the airport for about 10 hours waiting. They even boarded the plane and still we didn’t take off.) I narrowly missed being stranded in Edmonton for three days last night, but I did eventually make it home after a trip that should have taken five hours at most took twelve.

I woke up this morning with some kind of flu, and am now sick in bed, drinking water to keep from getting dehydrated and eating crackers because they’re all I can stomach.

Today is my birthday.

It would really help me out and make all this somewhat less unbearable if you could somehow pull out a win tonight. Additionally, I have a ticket for your game in Vancouver tomorrow — it was a birthday present to myself — and if I am well enough to go, I’d love to see you win, or at least score some goals. (If I am not well enough to go, it would be great if Heatzza could come to my house and take care of me but I know you’re probably busy so I don’t expect that even though I’d do it for you.)

I know I’m hard on you sometimes, but I am really a loyal fan and I love you all (except Schubert). Various incarnations of your team have caused me a lot of mental anguish over the last 13 years or so, and you could atone for some of that while also making what has been a miserable week a little less horrible with some good efforts on this western trip.

Please, if you don’t want to do it for the points, do it for me. It would mean a lot.

Yours fondly,

Meaghan, aka Sens at Land’s End

3 comments

3 Comments so far

  1. PlayingForTheOtherTeam December 27th, 2008 1:57 pm

    I’ll be at the game as well. I’ll be bringing my Ottawa residing dad, so we can both cheer on the visiting team.

  2. Temujin December 28th, 2008 9:57 pm

    Hope the Skytrain ride home tonight wasn’t too frustrating. I can well imagine the heckling you received while at the game.

    Jump aboard the Canucks wagon now. There is plenty of room :-)

  3. Meaghan December 29th, 2008 12:34 pm

    Playingfortheotherteam, I was surprised at the number of Sens fans I saw at the game! Glad to know you were there too. :)

    Temujin, nope, no heckling. Just one kind of obnoxious woman who “apologized” because she was trying to “be in the Christmas spirit.” Thank you, you can offer my bandwagon spot to someone else.

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