There's a Game 7 A-brewin'...and it's Time to BURN THE BOATS

Here we go people. In about 3 hours the beloved by few and hated by most, the most polarizing and talked-about team in the history of basketball, if not the history of sports, the team that causes Bill Simmons to flip back and forth between opinions like a politician in November, the Miami Heat will face off down at Bayside against the Indiana Pacers in a Game 7 for the ages. A win means a third straight trip to the NBA Finals and a chance at continuing the team's run at history. A loss means 12 months of Simmons, Brian Windhorst, and Twitter saying the most incoherently idiotic things about basketball and the Heat ever deemed imaginable. A loss means Wade's amnesty, guys. Bosh's trade. Lebron's bolting to the 24-58 Cleveland Cavaliers. Coach Spo's firing. The burning down of the city of Miami.

But a win shuts everybody up and gives us cause to celebrate. And that alone makes this worth it. That makes this one of the most sweat-inducing games in the reign of the Big Three. Will we get a Dwyane wade 40 point game or another The Game Six? Will Chris Bosh put his big boy pants on and play like I do against kids half my age in pool basketball? In ~three hours, we will find out.

Dan LeBatard wrote this wonderful article about tonight that you should read immediately. In it, he tells the story that is passed around the Heat brass from time to time from Pat Riley. It's the story of war, an army spends years building boats in preparation for battle. On the day of the battle they wash up on shore, ready to fight. The commander than commands his soldiers to burn all of the boats they had spent years building. A solider walks up to him and asks: “But why?” “We will have no escape if things get bad.”

“Exactly,” the general replied. “You win or you die.”

It's win or die tonight folks. It's win a game, or face utter destruction. Everyone wants us to lose tonight. ESPN, on their website, said this game will result in a "dethroning," or, if the Heat win, a "survival." Yes, this is considered by many to be objective journalism. But who cares. It's game seven. FOW MIAMI, FOW. 

Note: there's Urban Dictionary for those who don't know the acronym FoW

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/06/03/3429738_p2/dan-le-batard-oh-how-we-love-the.html#storylink=cpy