Lord Knows, I Tried

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Growing up, I loved football. Loved playing it, loved watching it.

Now?

The increase in the number of commercials and the growing ineptitude of the announcers make it almost painful to watch. It's been a few years, maybe five, since I bothered to watch any of the regular season games. On Thanksgiving I'll watch them because the family does. It's fun to sit with family, or friends, and watch the games on Thanksgiving. Maybe it's the tradition. But even that has become less than enjoyable. I'll watch the Lions and the Cowboys as they have always played on Thanksgiving.

But now there's a third game, typically that one gets switched off early and we all go to bed, satiated by that time with food and drink. The other two games are mostly background noise, something there while the meal is being prepped, folks are talking, and then sitting down to eat. In my Mom's house, when we sit down to eat, the TV is off. No exceptions. At my place or my brother's the TV is in another room so it's out of the way, it stays on but no one is watching. Again, it's background noise. Someone might check the score now and then but we only really pay attention when we're done eating.

Even then we tend to chat in front of the TV rather than actually watching it.

As to the announcers, some are okay, most are, in my opinion, incompetent. They talk too much, say obvious things (as in telling us what we just saw), and too many of them aren't all that bright. I swear if one more guy tells me how good someone is "in space" there had better be a spaceship and someone in a spacesuit. Damn it, what happened to calling it "in the open field"? Most of what they say is meaningless jargon.

Space. Yup, between most announcers' ears.

Most of the commercials go beyond suck. Every now and then there's a good one, an entertaining one, but they play it to death. Over and over and over. Drives me effing nuts it does. Most folks ignore that shite anyway.

So Saturday night I decided to sit down and watch football. I lasted maybe a half hour. Once the Colts had jumped out to a 14 - 0 lead and the idiot color commentator had used the phrase"in space" maybe three times in the same sentence, I had had enough. Decided to go blog instead.

Lucky you.

I might attempt Cowboys - Seahawks later, but only if there's nothing good on Netflix, Amazon Prime, or YouTube.

Hell, watching monkeys fling dung at each other is more entertaining than the NFL these days.

Yup, I tried, Lord knows I tried. But I just couldn't stomach it.



Postscript: The second game wasn't bad. Watched a lot of it. I like defense.