Except for Bruce Springsteen at halftime, I don't plan on watching the Super Bowl. I try to keep my distance from football.
As a kid I thought the idea was for guys to run towards each other and jump all together onto a big pile. Later on I learned the rules. Sort of. But I knew a boy who died playing football and I developed a pathological fear of the game. I considered football a dangerous and dumb sport. Just like I considered the guys who played it.
Okay--so my sister married the quarterback of the high school team. I gave Paul an exemption from being considered a dumb jock---but not until he graduated from law school and became a highly regarded attorney. LOL.
And then....I was forced to make one more exception. When I married my second husband. V played high school AND college football ---thus forcing me to revise my opionion about football players and the value of the game.
I did NOT revise my opinion about my son PLAYING the game.
Since the day he was born, I whispered my mantra into the ear of my only son and assumed the fact that he was Jewish would do the rest. "No football, no motorcycles." I drilled this into Daniel so repeatedly that I have video of him promising he would play baskeball-- repeating in his cute baby voice "I promise, Mommy. No football. No motorcycles."
Then the hormones kicked in and the cute baby voice changed. And changed its tune.
I never signed up for this...
For 4 years of high school, my son played in every single football game.
So far so good on the motorcycles.
So did you enjoy the Springsteen show? I wish he had played more old stuff but he was showing off tunes from a new album.
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I now see where we are headed in this country.
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