Calkins: Wait, why all the fuss about streamers? On a strangely wonderful night for the Grizz.
Streamers fell for the first time this season at FedExForum on Wednesday, Nov. 29, after the Memphis Grizzlies beat the Utah Jazz. Last season, those victory streamers fell from the rafters after 35 home games. (Geoff Calkins/The Daily Memphian)
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Geoff Calkins has been chronicling Memphis and Memphis sports for more than two decades. He is host of "The Geoff Calkins Show" from 9-11 a.m. M-F on 92.9 FM. Calkins has been named the best sports columnist in the country five times by the Associated Press sports editors, but still figures his best columns are about the people who make Memphis what it is.
The Grizzlies won a home game for the first time in 218 days Wednesday. So when the streamers fell, people scrambled to collect them as if they had never seen them before. On a night of joy and relief at FedExForum. Which will just have to do, for now.
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