A Family in Chaos

My tendencies in sports have evolved GREATLY over the years!! At 45, Okay, I just had to stop and calculate the years to determine how old I was!! You are ABSOLUTELY too old, when you aren’t exactly sure how old you are, and you have to bust out the fingers and toes, just to verify! My old friend Renice just had her 50th…I bet she wore the paint off her toenails calculating that one!! Just kidding Renice! Anyway!!

As I started to say, at 45, I have settled into my two sport world! FOOTBALL, (THE AMERICAN VERSION!!) & BASEBALL. I think I love both of these because of the complete oppositeness of them!

Yep, oppositeness…it’s a Ricism! I love football for the ANGER, VIOLENCE, ONE ON ONE DOMINANCE!  While baseball is FINESSE, ANTICIPATION, ART!

Nothing polarizes men like FOOTBALL…seriously…not even religion or politics! Men will be more accepting of your differences in religious beliefs, they will even forgive you if you are a Dumocrat…but try bashing the SEC in the comments section of this post, and you will get to meet  my redneck brother, brother in law, cousins, nephews, friends…might even meet some of my nieces!! 

I know….there are other sports that offer that violence….and don’t get me wrong, I like UFC, Pride, and those fighting sports, those guys deserve ultimate respect for what they do. My Brother in Law, and personal Tattooist, Brian Foster(www.fosterfights.com), is into that stuff, and they put up levels of commitment that I can’t even begin to FATHOM!! They live their lives in a dicotomy…they insanely train & nurture their bodies, then…they abuse the shit out of them!!

I used to love basketball! I spent several years coaching basketball, and trying to learn every aspect….but much like Tequilla was ruined by that one incident with the worm, basketball was ruined by that one incident with the BOOKIE!!

There is also soccer… which is just hockey for kids who can’t skate or fight!! I’ve never been much for soccer, it seems to me like it was invented by a lazy PE teacher. “Here’s a ball class, go kick it around….”

Let’s see….what else is there….OH! Golf! I love golf, but is it really a sport…or a game? I don’t really know, but I do find it hard to refer to John Daley as an athlete, even jokingly! I have also played with Fuzzy Zoeller, NOT an athlete, maybe alcoholic, but NOT athlete!!

HMMMM….I have NEVER lost money during baseball or football season…could there be a correlation?