Nov162008
Football, if you can believe it.
Filed under sports,TV by Kim at 5:20 pm on Nov 16 2008
Today I watched a little bit of football.
So did half the country, sure. Of course for me it’s something I might do once a year. If I’m around football fans, I’ll watch it, if I’m not, I tend not to seek it out. The teams I like are Miami and Tampa Bay, so the chances of getting to see those on local TV are usually slim. So I gave up years ago. What caught me up was the final quarter and OT of the Bengals-Eagles game, which was pretty intense and fun to watch, even if the ending was less than satisfying. I really like stuff like seeing a 1-8 team come out and beat a 5-4 team. That kind of thing keeps me interested.
Years ago when I was dating Chris, one of the nice things he did for me was patiently (as far as I recall) teach me about football. I have really great memories of watching games with him & his roomie. That’s how I ended up with the Bucs on my list of favorites. It’s a totally different team than it was in ’99/’00 but I’d still watch ’em if I had the chance/time. It’s just another thing to add to the list – there’s not enough hours in the day. Today it was some anti-intellectual sin indulgence that set me down in front of the game; I could have read any number of books. I could have gone an extra mile for class. But it’s fun to feel that hand-wringing urgency and see that fight. Especially in a game like the one I saw today where it’s tied and every success and failure could mean the difference.
I used to get extremely riled up about professional sports, and I can still see things from that point of view, but I’ve calmed down about that. There are worse things to worry about, although like I said… if you hate professional sports I would probably be willing to accept many of your points be they cultural or financial.
Now I’m off to see Yes… actually there’s probably a non-small demographic overlap between the two events.
