Boom’s babbling

I tried, off and on last weekend, but I just couldn’t do it.  Maybe my mind is still in baseball mode, maybe it is the fact that football is so ^%$# SLOW!  I have been watching quite a bit of rugby and Aussie rules football the past few weeks, and it is hard for me to watch a game where the players run a play for 4-8 seconds, then take a break for half a minute or more (sometimes MUCH more) before they do anything else.

This has been a problem for a while.  Anymore, I tend to treat football on TV as a radio broadcast, with video highlights.  I can do something else, then look over occasionally when a play actually occurs.  If I mistime it, I have five or six more chances to see it on replay!  I cannot just sit down and watch.

Last week, for the FSU-Miami game, ESPN played around with something on ESPN2, where they had 8 different cameras on the screen at once (it looked like one of the Star Trek 2.0 broadcasts on G4.)  All it showed is how little is going on during a football game.  We got to watch both head coaches stand and occasionally yell into their headsets; the quarterback, whose team is actually playing, listening into his headset; the quarterback, not on the field, standing and doing nothing; a central shot of what is being broadcast on ESPN; a smaller shot of the same thing from another angle; and a couple attempted isolations on what they hope will be important players on the upcoming play (or occasionally nice pictures of the turf.)  In all, it was an excellent example of why a 3 1/2 hour game can be watched easily in 15 minutes, if you tape it.

Since I value my opinions highly, I have decided it is time to toss my BS out for all the world to ignore.

This post is just to let you know a little about me.

I am in my late 40’s, married for 25 years this November, the father of 2 teens, one in college (currently in England, and not a teen for much longer) and one in high school.  I enjoy games, roleplay, miniature, board and computer; movies, books and music; arguing politics, religion or sports; British sit-coms, heavy metal music, science fiction and fantasy books and movies; surfing the net; good food (preferably spicy); good coffee and good beer (not wanky flavored versions of same); basketball, baseball, American football and soccer (as I write this, I am watching Man U play Tottenham and am becoming increasingly convinced that it is wrong for one person to be as young, as talented, and as %$##%^ good looking as Cristian Ronaldo).

I have been an atheist for about 30 years; an Indiana University fan for almost as long (I don’t think there is a connection); I have recently signed up for Setanta sports on DirectTV and am becoming intrigued by rugby (both Union and League) as well as Aussie and Irish football (of course, once the new TV season begins, I will lose control of the remote to my wife, but that’s life!) I don’t consider Country to be music, nor racing to be a sport.  I think that reality TV is the latest and greatest sign that the “end is upon us”.

 Oh, well, enough babbling for now, I need to work on finishing up an album of my daughters pictures from school, for the family to see, and I need to get some sleep, so I will get back to work.

Oops, one last comment.  On a team as talented as Man U, I am becoming very impressed with Giggs, a player I was unfamiliar with 2 weeks ago.