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Originally Posted by Teri B.
Well at least you're a Bears fan - that makes it understandable. I guess I don't feel so stupid for walking around on the verge of tears all morning, having been filled in on the news when I hit the office door by sneering co-workers and a barrage of HA HA emails and phone calls, considering how the NFL players and soldiers in Afghanistan took the news. It's not funny to me. It's sad. It's heartbreaking. It's sentimental. But not funny. Yeah, he's just an athlete, but he's meant a lot to me.
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i know how you feel ~ i really do.
gretsky owned edmonton and i went to many oilers games back then. then came the trade to la kings. i swear you could hear a pin drop in alberta upon that announcement. true i could still watch him play on tv but it was devastating all the same. it took about a year for me to crack it was canada's 1st free trade with the usa and it was meant as a bitter joke.
i took his retirement a little better but not a whole lot. hockey lost a class act that made the game become better.
they might just be athletes but they inspired something in us and losing that is never easy or fun.