Interesting night for me as a fan. I have lived most of my life in two cities - Phoenix and Houston. I grew up an Astros fan and while I lived in Phoenix, there was no pro baseball team so my passion for Astros baseball continued to grow after I moved there, along with the associated misery (see 1986 NLCS) that goes with rooting for the Astros. When I moved to Phoenix, I was not much of an NBA fan but slowly became a Suns fan thanks to Walter Davis, Kevin Johnson, Tom Chambers and Sir Charles.
So tonight I spent the evening catching up on email and writing press releases while watching the Suns implode in the final two minutes against Spurs to lose in game 5 of their FIRST ROUND series, ending the Phoenix season. Then I flipped over to the Astros game and watched them close out a 6-4 win against the Arizona Diamondbacks.
The irony for me personally continues to be that the one Houston sports team (yes, I was a die-hard Oilers fan) I was not much of a fan of, the Houston Rockets, were the ones who eliminated the Suns two years in a row in the mid-90s. Those Rocket teams would go onto win back-t0-back championships.
Anyhow, a rough night for Phoenix sports fans who root for the home teams. While in Houston, their basketball team gets to live another day after silencing the Jazz and the Astros snapped their three-game skid. A rare good day for Houston sports fans. Basketball season is officially over for me now. Houston, you have my full attention once again.
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