Osler's Razor

Yesterday, I went to San Antonio to give a Continuing Legal Education lecture. The lecture went ok, but not great, because people in San Antonio seem to be restricted to this form of communication:

Person One: "Go Spurs, go!"
Person Two: "Go Spurs!"
[Hug]

Had I stuck to that script, I would have been fine.

Anyways, I was on my way back after a stop to see old friends in Austin, and heard the end of the game. What troubled me was that after the Spurs clinched the series, the fans got in their cars and went home. What? Don't these people know how to celebrate?

Back in Detroit, winning an important series merits a real celebration. In those moments, Detroiters like to combine their two great loves: Cars and arson. Some people from "the outside" don't know this, but traditionally Detroit has celebrated an annual holiday of arson. "Devil's Night" is celebrated every October 30, the night before Halloween, and calls for the celebrants to burn abandoned homes and businesses and fire guns at random. Devil's Night, in fact, is one of the few events in Detroit (other than the Super Bowl) which attracts tourists; for example this site chronicles the visit of the Hyattsville Fire Department to Detroit for Devil's Night in 1997. Good times!

The problem with these folks in San Antonio might be that they never learned proper celebration techniques in college, like people in Michigan do...