Does anyone else have a friend who gave up on the game in the 1st half?

[Curley]

I have a friend and longtime Celtics fan lets just say his nickname is "Dig".  While we were talking during the 1st half he said well I might as well just go to bed if this is how its going to be. 

I told him its early and that we were going to win this game.  Needless to say he did not see the comeback live.  I wanted to know what sort of punishment or torment you guys would give one of your friends who did this? 

For starters I will forever refer to this game as the "I want to go to bed" game.  All suggestions are welcome!

[connerhenry43]

i have a friend, bug time C's fan. he shocked me when he said he went upstairs, put the game on the radio, did other things, including a brief nap, and would not come back to watch until it got to signle figures.

[CelticsWhat35]

I have a friend and longtime Celtics fan lets just say his nickname is "Dig".  While we were talking during the 1st half he said well I might as well just go to bed if this is how its going to be. 

I told him its early and that we were going to win this game.  Needless to say he did not see the comeback live.  I wanted to know what sort of punishment or torment you guys would give one of your friends who did this? 

For starters I will forever refer to this game as the "I want to go to bed" game.  All suggestions are welcome!

My advice is to make sure he never forgets it.  If you're ever around him and he starts talking to other people about the Finals win (if it happens), make sure to be, "Oh, you mean the series when you went to bed early and missed the greatest comeback in Finals history?".  It may shatter your friendship, but hey, do you really want someone like that as a friend anyway?   

[Roy Hobbs]

I've got to say, all my Celts fans friends stuck with this one.  We were all complaining in the first half, and more than one person speculated that this team was toast, but no one gave up. 

What a great night.  I'd be absolutely livid if I missed that comeback.

[Seasin08EMan]

Curls, that is a shame that Dig gave up!  All I can say is that My wife Sharon sprinted out of the back door and did a cannon ball into our pool after the final buzzer.  I shed my BEAT LA shirt and followed her with another cannon ball in my C's game shorts.  Not sure that one is a true C's fan if they went to bed in the finals, regardless of the situation!!!  Dig is going to get it, thats for sure!

[slam]

Oh, I have more friends that missed the game than who saw it!

Let's start with my girlfriend who is a huge Celtics fan who went to sleep early in the first quarter!  I then had to watch the entire game on mute so as not to wake her!  When she got up this morning, I didn't tell her what happened, only that she HAD TO watch it so I had her watch from the 45-21 point up until the end while she should have been getting ready for work.  She fast forwarded through most of it.  Admittedly, part of the reason she didn't watch the game last night was that things weren't completely happy between us, so I'll take some responsibility for that.  On a positive, everything is good today.

So getting to work and we have the guy I talk to about the Celtics the most who went to sleep at half time.  Got up this morning and heard on ESPN or something that they won.  You just missed one of the greatest playoff games of all time!

Same with another guy I play ball with.  And again and again.  People, do you not have any faith in the Celtics?  When the first quarter was over, when we were in the 45-21 hole, I said WE ARE GOING TO WIN THIS GAME!

Paul Pierce part of two of the most amazing comebacks in playoff history.  Amazing.  I LOVE THIS TEAM!!

[DivingCowens]

Happily, my sister did.  She stopped watching at the half and she is the BIGGEST JINX in the world!  I still hold her solely responsible for the Sox losing to the Yanks in 2003.  She turned it off but kept her TIVO running and I was happy to call her this morning and tell her to watch it.

The most unreal thing I have ever watched and if I hear 1 more Skip Bayless-esque guy say that it was bigger collapse than comeback I am gonna punch my TV

[connerhenry43]

I have a friend and longtime Celtics fan lets just say his nickname is "Dig".  While we were talking during the 1st half he said well I might as well just go to bed if this is how its going to be. 

I told him its early and that we were going to win this game.  Needless to say he did not see the comeback live.  I wanted to know what sort of punishment or torment you guys would give one of your friends who did this? 

For starters I will forever refer to this game as the "I want to go to bed" game.  All suggestions are welcome!

My advice is to make sure he never forgets it.  If you're ever around him and he starts talking to other people about the Finals win (if it happens), make sure to be, "Oh, you mean the series when you went to bed early and missed the greatest comeback in Finals history?".  It may shatter your friendship, but hey, do you really want someone like that as a friend anyway?   

no i can't do that. he is a huge C's fan, despite this story. he also works nights, so taking a small nap is not as criminal as it sounds.

[Robb]

i have a friend, bug time C's fan. he shocked me when he said he went upstairs, put the game on the radio, did other things, including a brief nap, and would not come back to watch until it got to signle figures.

Ever since the Atlanta series, every time they went down double digits, I'd turn it off (ESPN Gamecast, since I can't watch the games live) and then check back to see what the score was intermittently.  Until Game 6 in Detroit I don't think I ever continually watched them after they went down 10 and they won that game.  Before then, it was just "I can't do anything, I can't even see them, and they can't play from behind.  When they play from behind they get tight, their ball movement stops and they just shoot threes."  Of course this was all what I guessed from Gamecast and comments on here, but it seems like it was the case, but I would just find something else to busy myself with and think about the next game.

Today they went down 16-6 and I turned it off and left.  I went to the bank, walked to work, turned on my computer there for halftime, did some work and checked back in when they pulled to single digits.  From there on, I watched the whole rest of the game.  Is it fair weather to do so?  My uncle says it is.  I thought it was just realistic about my teams strengths and weaknesses.  When they're on, they're on, and when someone stands up to them and plays them straight, they get tight and can't close out.  I think I wanted to do what I could to spare some blood pressure and not waste my time on what I had thought from experience to be a losing cause.

If I were able to actually watch the game and see the action, there is no way I would turn it off, though.  Even losing, I barely ever get to see the Cs play (I lived in So. Illinois before coming all the way on the other side of the planet) and would want to take every chance to do so.

[dlpin]

i came home and turned on the TV when it was 37-14. When it got to 45-21 i wanted to turn it off, but couldnt find the remote, so I just sucked it up and watched the rest of the game. Boy, am I glad I did that...

[LarBrd33]

My cousin texted me after the first half, "I'm heading to the bar to drink this one off".   I tried warning him, but just found out this morning that his phone died after that.   Apparently he missed the entire 3rd quarter while at the bar... until suddenly stumbling across a TV that had it on (he's in North Carolina right now) in the 4th to see we were tied.   Haha

Also... after the 1st half my roommate decided to go on a bike ride.  He didn't get back until the game was over.  He didn't believe the Celtics had won.   I'm also forcing him to go on a bike ride if we start losing in game 5...

[paintitgreen]

I'll admit, I had little faith they'd come back, but I just switched venues. I watched at a friend's house in the first half, and I had to run a quick errand for work at some point. I had decided beforehand to leave at halftime, but in the 2nd quarter, decided if they cut it to less than 14 by halftime, I'd stay. It looked good, but when Farmar's running bank 3 went in, I was bumming.

I left at the half, read some trash talking text messages from Laker fan friends, had visions of cutting it to 5 in the 3rd, ran the errand, listened to the opening of the 3rd quarter on the radio, heard it go down to 12, got excited, and then it got up to 20 around the time I got home and I almost decided not to watch the rest. Instead, I walked in the house, turned on the TV, paused it and started doing some stuff around the house, figuring at least I'll be able to fast forward through this stinker.

But from the moment I sat in my chair and pressed play, the comeback was ON. I caught up by the end of the 3rd, not believing what I'd just seen. Texted "uh oh" to those trash talking Laker fan friends and enjoyed the rest of the greatest Celtics win since I've been a truly cognizant fan (I'm 27, so I was just 5 in 86 - my previous favorite was Game 5 against Indiana - the Bird head injury game). It was absolutely amazing.

Needless to say, I won't be leaving my house Sunday.

[Redz]

IT'S THE FINALS!  I'd watch it til the end if they were down 30 and there was 10 seconds left.  That's just me, but I see what happens in these games as a part of the permanent record of the history of the NBA and every last play with my team playing in it is still special - even if they're getting smoked.

[cdif911]

So I get to work wearing my KG Beast T:





(gotta plug flycasual, they're awesome!)

and one of my coworkers sees me and is almost in tears - he's a big fan, but went to bed early, figured we get up at like 5 o'clock and its not worth losing 2 hours of sleep (I think he went to bed in the 1st qtr) - he's like, so I turn on the news and they go to sports and go through the Red Sox game, no mention of the c's, what the heck - so he goes online and is like, "they won?" - apparantly it was the top story (rightfully) on the news, so not in the sports report.. regardless he won't be going to bed early again in the finals - I did tell him that at least it wasn't a series closing game, I think that may have made him feel better

[Frontierboy]

I almost gave up at the half..... I'm was so angry and frustrated that a soft team like LA could be dominating the C's.....

But being the hard core fan I am, I couldn't stop watching...... I was hoping for a 2002 flashback vs. the Nets......