What a Tar Heel victory REALLY means
Don't tell anyone but, despite a misdirected mythology about the newspaper staff bleeding Carolina Blue, a lot of us here were secretly hoping the Tar Heels would lose Sunday. While it may be politically incorrect to root against a team from North Carolina when no other teams from the state are left, some of us were doing it.
Our personal interest overtook our professional objectivity, I fear.
If UNC wins the national championship on Monday night, we're going to publish a special commemorative section of the team's season next Friday. Last time Carolina won it all, we published a 40-page special section. (For perspective, the entire paper today is 44 pages.) So, while we would celebrate the victory along with all right-minded basketball fans, we also know that it would put a heavy load of work on tough but game group of folks.
It comes amid an already hectic schedule. We're creating a 12-page special section that runs Saturday on the Grasshoppers' and First Horizon Park's opening. Add that section and the UNC section to the fact that we have more people than usual on vacation because of the school system's spring break and it's close to a perfect storm.
But the Hoppers section is cool and will help spectators and those who will never set foot inside the ballpark understand what we now have on Eugene and Bellemeade. As for UNC, Tar Heel fans here can root for the team all they like; much of the work on that section has to be completed this week anyway in anticipation of a victory.
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Dead man blogging.
You will root for the Heels, and you will root with all of your might, feeble as it may be, even if it means that you have to produce a late edition with ten special inserts using this:
http://tinyurl.com/662zn
Look inside yourself, Robinson. Do you see that blackened, barely-beating, sorrowful sack of compromises?
That was once your heart.
Posted on March 29, 2005 7:37 PM
Two words of advice: BIG ART.
Posted on March 30, 2005 10:33 AM
I sure hope you get to print that section! Looking forward to seeing it.
Posted on March 30, 2005 4:45 PM
Anybody BUT the Heels!!
Posted on March 31, 2005 6:22 PM