Half-Time, Not a Big Game Attraction. Most Times.

So September is here and Fall is in the air. Football Season officially kicked-off this past weekend.

So is Sunday afternoon at your casa filled with one football game after the other? Does your quality time start with the pre-game mania? Make sure there are lots of chips and dip? Fill the cooler next to the lazyboy and make sure the grill is on simmer for the Half-Time Tailgater?

Here in Texas, near Dallas, I can only say Surprise!!!

No.

It is not that I don’t like football. (shhh…. don’t let that sacrilege out or I’ll be FARK’d). I know we have a team called the Cowboys who play just minutes away.   At least they used to play many years ago. Tom Landry, Staubach, Drew Pearson, Ron Springs… It  was a better game of contact.

I remember sitting in a dayroom in the barracks  from about 10am til dark watching games and snacking. I ‘d  get  my laundry done during  this time too. Then a walk up to Campagno’s  (in Monterey , Ca.) where I could get the most incredible roast beef sandwich and a  six-pack  of  some dark German beer to wash it down.  Then on to the second game of the day.

But that was a long time ago and after a few years living in Dallas and some of the Danny White years of the Cowboys, I found other things to fill my Sunday afternoons.

Nowadays, I will turn on the computer after getting home from church and go to the Patriot’s website and follow the action by checking on it every once in a while. Did I mention I grew up in Southern Massachusetts watching the ( then) Boston Patriots, flounder through the game,  season after season?

So most of the time I’ll get things done around here in the house or outside.  It might start to cool off outside to the upper eighty degree range in late September.

Working retail  for  twenty  plus years probably got me out of the habit of Sunday afternoon football.  But I still can’t see wasting Thursday night, Sunday afternoon and night, as well as Monday night watching football.  I don’t even do that for a good hockey game!

We will see how the season plays out with Tom Brady sidelined for the season.  How  will Matt Cassell hold up?  I will follow the PATS closer in a few more weeks and  perhaps my boys and I will at least watch one game a week.

Go Pats, Go !

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