Well, I made my first trip to Cowboy Stadium on Saturday night.
This was probably the first football game that I’ve seen (live) in about uh…..ever?
Not sure if high school games count. And I’m not sure if it really counts since I decided to watch most of it while I was sitting. It’s a good thing that the “Jerry Jones” guy decided to put a 72 ft tall video screen in the middle. While the seats we had were good, everyone stood up to watch the game – blocking our view. Well, most everybody. Since I wasn’t wearing team colors of any kind, myself and my daughter watched the screen rather than the field.
Of course, it should go without saying that football is a pretty major pastime in Texas. Since I’m not really “Texas blood” but somewhat of a transfer, I never picked up the inclination to ever watch nor even learn how it’s played. How many home-runs can a team get before half-time? I digress.
When I was in elementary school, I knew a guy (whose name I will withhold) and he had a lunchbox that had pictures of the helmets of all 200 or whatever football teams on them. Daily, (religiously almost) he’d have me hold the lunchbox and he would name every single team that had a helmet pictured on the box. Then, he would point the box at me, and say, “Now it’s YOUR turn”. I’d typically get them all wrong. Mostly because I didn’t care, I never bothered to even pay attention while he was doing it. Now, to me, this was a completely pointless exercise. It wasn’t impressing ME, and it’s not like anyone was around watching.
At this point, I’m not even sure why I was sitting next to him?
I looked him up on Facebook the other day. He’s a lawyer now.
