2004-01-31 02:38 PM CST
I was talking to my mom a couple of weeks ago, the last day of NFL playoffs, and she asked me if I had seen either of the games. Nope, haven't watched a football game all year! Anyway, she said she saw the end of both of them.
I guess I'm sort of strange, but I never claimed to be like most people. I don't know what I do on Sunday afternoons! I don't take a nap, and I don't watch TV. I must be busy doing stuff I have to do; otherwise I would remember.
When I was little, sports were never on our television. Then, in 1973 or '74 (I think) we got a COLOR television! Suddenly basketball became interesting for a few months, and when football came around, well, we stated watching. It also had something to do with the fact that, as band students, we were going to junior high and high-school football games, I suppose.
So I got interested in the Cowboys. Even when the Oilers were suddenly good (Bum Phillips, you know), I still stuck with the Cowboys.
They sent an email to everyone in the Houston offices yesterday encouraging them to wear jeans and their favorite team's jersy. I've seen a couple of women with an NFL T-shirt or sweatshirt, but no men. (Hamid is wearing a "jet drag bike" shirt, though, does that count?) I had a Cowboys jersy when I was in junior high... number 22. How could I have anticipated what a great player Emmitt Smith would become? (Yeah, right. That number belonged to the "fastest man on earth," "Bullet" Bob Hayes.)
So I was interested in pro football for a time. Then I got married and moved out of my parents' house. Haven't watched sports since, except for a brief period of time when I would watch the Astros. (Baseball was interesting when the boys were in Little League.)
But somebody watches. The TV stations in Houston are all excited about the Super Bowl, even the stations that aren't carrying it. They've been reporting from downtown all week, and there's something called "The NFL Experience" going on at the convention center. Joe Walsh was performing last night on one stage, and K. C. and the Sunshine Band on another.
So what am I doing on Super Bowl Sunday? Well, Jacquelyn and her mother are going to be flying to Florida to go to the Florida College lectures, as will our preacher and a lot of other folks. A young man from Cleveland, Texas, Todd McAdams, will be preaching for us that evening, about the time the game starts. Jesse normally hosts a Bible study on the second Sunday of each month for the teen- and twenty-agers, but Todd asked him to have it the night that he's here, so they won't be watching the Super Bowl.
Maybe I'll just be browsing Pleonast.
Hey, there won't be any traffic! Maybe I can find some twisty roads and spend
a couple of hours on the bike.
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