A few days ago, when the Flyers were still in the playoffs and the Sixers had just taken a 3-1 lead in their series against the Miami Heat, I was feeling so overjoyed by this year of Philly sports success that I wondered on my Facebook page: “What is God going to ask in exchange for this? Hide the firstborn sons.”
On Tuesday night, God called in his chips on my (purely hypothetical) firstborn.
Despite years of diehard Philly sports fandom, I am no longer rooting for a home team in the playoffs.
By allowing Mill, just hours after his release from prison, to ring the bell in their pivotal game against the Heat, the Sixers did something that was unnecessary, irrelevant to the sport and designed to alienate the simple, crazy, decades loyal fans like me.