My Mission/My Calling (I Hope)

I am almost positive I came out of the womb holding a smart phone running the ESPN Radio app. If that is not the case then I'm sure Sportscenter was turned on by the time I was wrapped in a blanket. All I watch is sports all I read about is sports. At the end of the day all I really think about is sports. My girlfriend loves this about me.

As I discreetly alluded to earlier, this has essentially always been the case. For me the best part of Saturday has always been watching college football and the longest day of the year has always been the Monday after the Super Bowl. When the Packers win that Monday tends to be particularly sad. This passion is not limited to football. For that would be to deny myself the glory of march madness, the entertainment of the NBA playoffs, and the lunacy of the NHL. And as The Rock says, limiting myself to only real sports would also be a poor choice (he's articulate when he wants to be jabroni). Also, I love watching golf. My girlfriend reeeally loves this about me. All this time spent watching sports has taught me a few very important lessons.

First lesson, sports is the best thing to argue about because in the end someone is proven right. In the end a game is played and a question gets answered. In politics people end up hating each other and if it's an election year their is a tax cut. Second lesson, their is more real life drama in sports than in anything else on TV. This is not including the local news which nobody watches anyways. I don't care if True Life is your favorite show their is nothing like watching the emotional swings involved in a close college basketball game. Hearing Randy Jackson say "pitchy" over and over may be exciting, but it just doesn't hold up to watching a golfer break down and cry after blowing a lead and hitting one in the water. The thing that really sets sports apart though is the ability of a single game to make hundreds, thousands or even millions of people feel the exact same way. A winning team can send millions of people into a state of jubilation while a losing team can leave an entire city frustrated. The beauty of sport is even a losing team brings people together.

And that brings us to the third lesson. In the end, it's just a game. After all the emotion, after all the fighting, after all the sweat, blood and tears, its just a game. In sports, people who want nothing more than to beat the crap out of each other can come together and shake hands. It is this comradery in the face of blinding emotion that separates sports from other conflicts. In real life differences separate people to the point of pure hatred, but with sports everyone eventually comes together in the end. These three things encompass everything I find absolutely fascinating about sports and are the reason sitting down on a Tuesday night and watching hockey, can actually be a pretty good time.