Good post Rich!
Heavily agree, especially on the NFL part!
The phenomenon I’m realizing, with my TOTAL attitude change with the NFL/Redskins/etc. is that I’m now, finally, ACTING, on what I’ve been wanting to do, but just couldn’t quite let go of!!
That is, observing the gradual, and slow, progressive, erosion, of the basic fundamentals of NFL football! In other words, REAL NFL FOOTBALL!!
Fundamentals, as in the most basic actions, that without, or in their absence, whittles away the real spirit and truth of solid, sport competition!
Fundamentals, that have been with us, and engrained in the competitive human psyche, since even before Roman times. WHERE ARE TODAYS VERSION OF REAL SPORT GLADIATORS???
Fuck it, I’ll stop here, and prevent another frustrated rant that accomplishes nothing🤣!!
Anyway, I stopped mostly watching last year, and only a minute or two, literally, this year!
The difference is, I feel GOOD about it!! Fuck ‘em! I don’t miss it either!LOL
Now, I just play more music, or golf, too, which has its own frustration to it, but at least its from my own doing!🤣
Baseball, I’m not so sour about. Mostly because I was done with MLB, way back at the last strike!
But I will watch the Nats, occasionally, do pull for them, but nothing even close to heartbreak if they don’t make the playoffs every year.
Hockey is my last sports hope, and even that, you can sort of feel it’s demise, at least as I know it. At least certainly in some aspects, but I’m still willing to keep my chin up, so far!
LETS GO.CAPS!!
Rush
Yeah, I gave up on the NFL. I was never a diehard fan, but I was a pretty big skins fan. I would usually watch them. Maybe it's just what we did when I was growing up as a family, but now ...it's just not the same game, and there are so many more options now than there were 30-40 years ago. I haven't really watched football in the last 5-10 years and have given up entirely over the last 3-4. I don't miss it either. Unless I am actually bored and have nothing to do on a Sunday afternoon, and nobody is around, and I feel like killing some time (which the culmination of these things never happens), I just don't even think about it. Glad for it. Honestly, I think I miss the idea of it more than anything else - sit around and relax with family on a Sunday to watch our team. I may have watched maybe 10 games in the last 5 seasons and that includes playoffs and super bowls. I probably couldn't even name 10 current Skins players. Actually, more like 5. I try not to be a bitter old guy about it, but that's how it makes me feel - like a grumpy old man.
Pretty much feel the same about the direction of most things these days. Every time I start to get angry or heated about a subject, I think...."man, I must be getting old", but the reality is...things really have taken a turn for the worse. I can't listen to the news or watch tv without shaking my head and thinking....where have we gone
I have always been, and always will be a "substance over image" kind of guy, yet that is the opposite of what most things are today. Nobody actually gives a crap about the truth or doing the right thing, only the appearance of it. Politics, media, music, movie stars, pro athletes, etc, etc. As long as you look good, everything is okay. Well...that is not going to lead our culture and our country to success. Well, I said "nobody" but that's not accurate....mostly
I know my dead relatives would absolutely cringe at today's culture. My uncle, who was born around 1920, lived through hard times; depression era, served in WW2, learned, worked and lived a long 96 years. He was one of my favorite people to talk to. He was a man of character, with values, and a work ethic. He made a life for himself and his family through hard work and hard times. Lived a full life that was HARD, and was all the better for it. I can't imagine what he would think of today's NFL and His country, which he proudly fought for, all the other shenanigans that go on in politics and today's culture and so on....
Sorry, but I have digressed into my "grumpy old man" again.
And I AM NOT THAT OLD. I'm only 52. Not old enough to be a grumpy old man, so I guess I am a grumpy middle aged man.
(Yes, if you do the math, my Uncle was much too old, but my father is 78 and he was the 8th of 8 children, and was born when his father was 52 and his mother was 46. (the doctors thought he was a tumor
[size=78%]) [/size]He essentially grew up an only child.
My uncle was pretty much my grandfather figure. My actual grandfather was born in 1890 and my grandmother was born in 1896. It's crazy to think. Grandfather died at 82 (throat cancer) but had been a heavy smoker for decades. Grandmother lived to 97. All 8 of there children (my aunts and uncles) lived well into there 90's. Five of them have passed now, all lived to at least 94 years old. (Well, my dad isn't in his 90's yet.) The three youngest are now 92, 86, and 78. (and the 86 year old still drives and plays golf 3-4 times a week. Although....you REALLY don't want to ride with him.
[/size]Okay, sorry about the rant and the family history....got carried away in my old man-ness. It would have sufficed to say...I don't watch the NFL anymore, because it stinks like most other things these days.
I too, am still hanging on for hockey.
Season get here already. Go Caps!
