1251. You turn down courtside seats to a Grizzlies-Lakers game because neither of the teams are the Rockets. (I did today.) 1252. You become a red-winger to get tickets from your girlfriend. 1253. You pawn your Cadillac Escalade to purchase Rocket season tickets. 1254. You predicted Stevie would participate in the 2002 Dunk Contest. 1255. You will never name your kids Karl or John.
1257. You watch the Rockets so much that your girlfriend has actually become a fan. 1258. Your girlfriend doesn't mind when you wait to have sex until the game is over. 1259. You don't want to have sex if the Rockets lose. 1260. You write a going away letter to your friends on cluthcity.net and not your girlfriend when you go out of town. 1261. You unplugged your caller ID the day Matt Bullard called your house. 1262. Matt Bullard calls you. 1263. Bullard asks you to coach one of his basketball camps. 1264. You coach one of his basketball camps. 1265. You participate in any basketball camp because one of the players is associated with it. 1266. Your mom spends the WHOLE DAY with Hakeem at the airport and brings you back his boarding pass with the pen he autographed it with. And you freak out because that's all you got out of it! 1267. The last thing you tell your girlfriend you do before you go to bed is call her. The REAL last thing you do it check this board. 1268. And 2 hours later, you're still on it. 1269. You write a Political Marketing paper on the New Arena campaign because it involved the Rockets.
1271. You give your Computer Science class a test in which all of programs have something to do with the Rockets (Write a generic function to calculate how many points per game a player scores, then write a program that figures out how many ppg Oscar Torres scores)
1273. You wait outside the "Summit" for almost and hour in the cold rain and hail in shortsleeve shirt and shorts!!!!! All of this, just to get that Stevie Franchis bobblehead.
1274. Every time you eat rice you scream, Yao Yao 1275. You name your cat Boki. 1276. You are hosting a Yao Ming party on Aug 31 This thread'll never die
1279. You are at a NC State football game and when honoring a player from the '83 bball team they mention how he played for and is now a broadcaster for the jazzholes and you are the only state fan booing. And in case you cared NCSU beat New Mexico.
1282. You plan to attend a Rockets home game as part of your honeymoon, seems straight forward except you live DownUnder
1283. You curse yourself for not being a real fan and contributing in this thread before. 1284. You think waiting for sex until after the game is nuts -- -- -- -- -- -- -- It's gotta be halftime when you're pumped up about the game! 1285. You burn your own CDs and distribute them to friends to get them pumped about the new season. The CDs have only 3 songs: Air Bull, The Moochie Song, and Hero. 1286. 2 months after seeing the "Hero" promotional Yao Ming video, you still can't (and don't want to) get the song out of your head. 1287. You didn't know that "Hero" was actually from the Spiderman movie.
1288 ---letting the Rockets front office know they do a real crappy job when it comes to thier season ticket holders. 1289---Watching the Comets, hoping like hell you spot a Rocket player in the stands so you can remind yourself they still exist 1290---Putting sex off with your girlfriend for fear it might bring bad karma to the team the following night...j/k
1291. You remember Rudy hitting bank shots in Hofheinz Pavilion. 1292. You remember Kevin Kunnert missing his.
1293. Now that Air Bull and The Moochie Song have lost some of their original shine you let slip a tear as Yao Ming slowly downloaded onto your computer. And yes, the world was once again perfect.
1295. You venture into a really bad neighborhood in Raleigh, alone, at night (9pm) just to watch Chucky Brown play summer league ball. 1296. You wear your back-to-back championship shirt and walk up to him and have him sign it at the aforementioned bball game.
