re: #314 thedopefishlives

Growing up in the Basketball State (Indiana), basketball was what every kid was “expected” to play. Despite my well-above-average height, I was never all that good on the court. I also played T-ball when I was a kid. Being in the conservative bubble kind of insulated me from more “world-centric” games like soccer, and being in the northernmost reaches of the South meant that hockey was right out.

I was actually pretty late to basketball. I only started playing in the fifth grade but I picked it up pretty well despite the fact I have a very unorthodox shot but it was and still is my dad’s favorite sport and as I said I had some really fun games on the playground. But yeah hockey wasn’t much here too. I knew some hockey players but it’s only really taken off here since the Caps drafted Ovechin though we had some diehards in the mid 90’s I remember going to school with.