For those of you not in K.C. you might not realize all the craziness that is going on right now this city!
Let me share with you some of what I'm talking about.
Our Royals Baseball team won the World Series 2015! Schools are closing all over the city tomorrow because we have our celebration parade downtown at noon. Stores are open 24 hours selling Royals clothing, entire business have opened up to selling t-shirts to our city!
This might not seem like a big deal to you, perhaps you aren't a baseball fan.
Well.... to be honest, I'm not either.
Let me tell you how much of a non-sports person I am so maybe you can understand how much the Royals have affected our city. My family were not sports fans. I didn't grow up watching sports on Sunday. My hometown of Wichita didn't have any professional sports, and my parents didn't have a "college" team they followed so it just wasn't something I grew up with. In H.S. (sorry fellow Goddard grads) but we were not known for our sports. The only touchdown I think we got our senior year was done by our kicker. Our boys basketball team had the highest G.P.A. in the area. At least these are the things I remember (it was a while ago), forgive me if I miss-spoke. In college I went to a small college for the first 2 years and the girls volleyball team made the play-off (I think). Then I transferred to Kansas City Art Institute. We were ARTISTS, we don't play sports at least not on a college level. We played Frisbee - maybe - between classes.
I never have been part of a sports team that did well.
I've lived in KC since late 1999.
The Chiefs - well... if you follow football you know there is nothing to really all worked up over. I mean, I've been to games, it's fun, we have had a glimpse here and there of maybe having a decent year, but nothing like the Super Bowl or anything. Maybe, MAYBE we might get close to first round play-offs.
Our city was just starving for a team to really rally behind.
The MLS Sporting Soccer Team has done great. I do not want to over shadow their accomplishments. But, we are in the mid-west and the fan base for that sport is young and still being established. They have only been here a short time and simply just doesn't have the history of some "life long fans". Those living here don't have the memory of growing up seeing these games, our kids will... but time is still needed.
Well... for the 2nd year in a row the Royals have blown us away. Last year we were not upset we didn't win the World Series... we were grateful we got there! We were so very proud of our team and players and how hard they worked.
This year, we had hope! We believed from the beginning it was possible to go all the way. The tension was there from the first ball thrown. The suspense has been building all year, trades were watched, players were adopted into our town family, we desperately wanted to relive the excitement we got a taste of last year.
As a mom of 3 kids ages 10-5. I saw my kid's eyes get wide when our neighbors would launch fireworks after each series won in the play offs. I saw them go to school wearing their Royals shirts on Blue Friday with pride along side of their friends.
It's like a club, a club you are automatically a part of just because of the city you live in and it's a fun, exciting, classy, group of wonderful role models for our young kids to watch.
I loved seeing them praise God as they got one little hit! I loved watching my kids see how a team works as a unit and not as a side kick for a show boat. I liked how my kids were asking about the "rules", and why did that happen, and what does that mean? It was a chance for our kids to sit with us and cheer as a family, have fun dinner nights, stay up late, and yell in the house because we got a base hit in the 8th inning.
