I’m the world’s worst (or best, depending on your perspective) fair weather sports fan.<\/p>\n
I’m not a huge sports fan to begin with. I do have some favored teams, but I’m generally content to follow their fortunes in the newspaper or online, after the fact. I can’t remember the last sporting contest that I watched from start to finish, regardless of sport or level of competition. I guess I consume sports like I read…in fitful starts and stops, skimming and scanning.<\/p>\n
But when I decide to watch a game, I want my team to win, and win decisively. I’m not in it for the humiliation of the other team – that’s not my motivation – but if that’s how they choose to react to a 72-0 drubbing, that’s their problem, not mine. For example, my favorite Super Bowl game of all time was the one where Dallas beat Buffalo 52-17, and I was upset because Leon Lett had a stupid fumble to thwart yet another Dallas touchdown.<\/p>\n
Football and baseball games are just too time-consuming to sit through without getting a big payoff for what I’m investing via my viewing. In my internal risk-reward system, a close game doesn’t cut it, because the chances are too great that it’s going to end in disappointment. (Which, of course, may say more about the teams I choose to support than the nature of the game itself. Don’t go there.)<\/p>\n
This whole line of thought comes up because of the pitiful showing by the Texas Rangers last night in the first game of the American League Championship Series. The Rangers blew a 5-0 lead and ultimately lost 6-5 to the hated New York Yankees. That game perfectly typifies all the reasons I don’t watch sports: three hours down the drain, and nothing gained, and, in fact, much emotional and psychic well-being forfeited.<\/p>\n
So, the Rangers will have to get along without my presence for the remainder of their season (which will last two more games, I predict), as will the Cowboys. I won’t be watching the Aggies today, either, unless I check in at halftime and find they have a 64-0 lead. That’s MY kind of game!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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