I love Sports. This is no secret. Likewise the truth is out there that during the NFL offseason I get positively B-O-R-E-D about the sporting world. Golf… is not a sport. Basketball seems more notable for being fashion forward than displaying any great team excitement (before the playoffs that is). The NCAA is solid… in MARCH. So, that leaves me a bit sports empty. I drove by a youth flag football practice the other day and my partner might have compared me to a dog salivating over a bone.
It gets that bad.
Video Games don’t cut it so much anymore in the sports arena. So I wind up patrolling NFL.com in search for some football pleasure. I also watch my kids play. I’m trying to separate myself from thinking about my kids sports as anything more than stuff I enjoy watching, because getting caught up in the coaching stuff and placing too much value on youth sports can be disastrous and in a sense destabilizing for the families involved.
So, I find myself studying the Giants offseason and reveling in the mystery of what will happen next and how things will be different from last season. That is the pleasure of football and of life. There is always another turn of the page and another chance to make something magical.
Some Thoughts:
- I am thoroughly enjoying ‘Everything Sucks’ on Netflix.