{"id":223,"date":"2008-03-07T11:27:37","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T15:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/inspirational-greeting-card-tales\/congratulations-cards-for-ecstatic-sports-fans\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T22:26:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:26:43","slug":"congratulations-cards-for-ecstatic-sports-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/inspirational-greeting-card-tales\/congratulations-cards-for-ecstatic-sports-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Cards for Ecstatic Sports Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Certainly, it makes one feel terrific to send congratulations cards<\/a><\/strong> to friends or acquaintances who have special, personal events that are causes for joy; for instance, the birth of a child, a graduation, the purchase of a new house, a promotion or new job. To be the recipient of such greeting cards at happy times in life can provide memories that are hard to forget.<\/p>\n

A few friends actually sent me congratulations cards for a non-traditional kind of event \u2013when the New York Giants won the 2008 Super Bowl. For me, the Giants\u2019 victory over an obviously superior New England Patriots team was one of the high points of my life, since I have been a die-hard Giants fan as far back as I remember. So it was pretty cool to receive greeting cards<\/a><\/strong> for this occasion.<\/p>\n

In my office, there are two coworkers whom I consider good friends, and who both happen to be devout Patriots fans. None of the three of us actually believed that the Giants really could win but, when it happened, my two buddies were distraught. I, on the other hand, was overjoyed.<\/p>\n

Now I consider myself to be a pretty upstanding, honorable guy. In a competition of any type, if I do not have the good fortune of coming out as the winner, I make it my business to make sure I shake my adversary\u2019s hand and give the proper verbal kudos to their victory. Back at work the next morning, one of these coworkers was kind enough to murmur a half-hearted congratulations while the other not only was MAD AT ME (like I had thrown the winning touchdown pass to Plaxico Burress), but he refused to even acknowledge that the Giants were even good enough to be on the same field as the Patriots. Had I received congratulations cards from one or both, I would have made sure to frame them and put them on the wall of my newly-refurbished basement as a fond remembrance of an unlikely victory for my favorite team. But it was not to be. Maybe for the fun of it, next year I\u2019ll send these two friends anniversary cards<\/a><\/strong> commemorating the day the Giants won the big game!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Do people send congratulations cards when a fan\u2019s sports team wins the big game? Sure, why not! 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