DECADE IN REVIEW: 2000

Now, you'll be getting plenty of decade in review crap over the next few weeks regarding pop culture. What you wont get are decade in reviews regarding the dropping of treats.

New years night 2000 was spent in my humble home with my family. I was but a freshman in high school, still playing in about 3 different hockey leagues and getting to know my high school. I remember i pulled a muscle in the back of my shoulder blade and every time I sneezed, I would feel this intense pain and would let out a yelp in the middle of class. Spring rolled around and I remember I got some brutal shin splints combining spring track with hockey. I believe my romantic life consisted of an on/off fling with Leah Boudreau.

The Superbowl had an awesome ending with that Titans receiver getting tackled on the 1 yard line, and the kurt warner rams would go on to win it all. The Lakers won it all in 2000 (starting their 3peat run) Note: Kobe was not dining on Shaq's ass yet. Lastly, the New Jersey Devils won the Cup that year. Hard to find a more ugly string of champions.

The summer of 2000 got a bit crazy. For example, at the end of freshman year, Kelly Boyle decided to throw a keg party when we were 15 years old. Sounds about right. Later in the summer, I got 3 concussions in 2 weeks. I worked at Tewksbury Recreation which was basically a summer camp for all the young tewksbury youngins. My nose was bleedin all the time and I remember I didnt get clearance to play soccer that fall until late october. Sophomore year was a pretty brutal year. I started dating Lauren Bagley for awhile and that was...well...interesting. So yeah, had my 16th birthday and got my learner's permit, which your dog could probably get if you disguised it as a human being.

Umm, there was the whole gore Bush election but I have to be honest here, nobody really gave a shit. I definitely didnt. I will always maintain that a president is nothing more than the face of a country, which only gives him power to influence. The only reason I vote for a president is because of his power to appoint Supreme Court Justices. Other than that, it's all a giant sham designed to make you dance like puppets every four years. but back to 2000, It wasnt that eventful of a year considering the dawn of a new millenium.

The Yankees played the Mets in the Subway series and that ended exactly how it should have ended. Capping off a year of hated teams that won championships. 2000 sucked.

I guess I'll start writing 2001

-- Boosh