It's a question every sports fan (except for one) faces every single year: now what? In every sports league (except for College Football where there are millions of bowl games and bowl game champions) only one team ends the year on a high note and is crowned champion. So in the wake of watching my Philadelphia Flyers lose in the Stanley Cup Finals, the Phillies lose to the eventual World Series champion Giants and the Eagles lose a heart breaker to the Packers I say, "Well this, sucks..." As a sports fan, it always seems tough to move on from the end of the season. Of course, one goes over all of the cliches: "It was a good year", "We gave it a run", "Only one team comes out on top", and of course "There's always next year."
Honestly, the end of the season is never the worst part in itself. The worst part is the constant barrage of reminders that the season is over (which oddly enough usually comes from a fan of a team worse than yours). It may be a brutal occurrence, but it is a rite of passage. To survive this verbal beating makes you a true sports fan. So for the other Philadelphia fans, my Cleveland and Cincinnati sports fans I quote Tupac with, "Keep ya head up! Ooohhh child, things are gonna get easier. Ooohhh child, things will get brighter."
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