I cleaned up the living room a bit, including vacuuming up two dozen rogue pine needles from a tree that was hauled out last weekend.
I walked the dog, ran to the mailbox on the corner and made lunch.I still had two hours to go before the Packer game kicked off. Damn, did that suck.
With the games pushed back for the Saturday schedule - 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. for the Central zone - it was like killing time before an afternoon flight as I waited and waited for football today. You get really excited and can't really do much because you have this moderate event waiting later in the afternoon.
On the plus side, fans in the Pacific time zone must be eating this up. One of the big things I remember from a trip to San Diego was that the Red Sox were playing at the same time as Sunday football games were kicking up. There was a loud slice of Red Sox Nation in attendance to see the late-season game (2005) and more Charger fans in one place than I'd ever seen (previous record? Zero.) at that point.
The whole thing was moderately disorienting because we had to get to the bar at 9 a.m. to get seats. It was like being in college all over again, only with less murky-headedness.
I imagine this has to be somewhat comforting for California residents who are transplanted from the Midwest and out east. Still, if given the option, I'd totally opt for the West Coast schedule, which lets you get up and watch sports, no screwing around.
Sure, it'd suck for baseball season when the AL East games would be wrapping up when your lunch break ended, but still - football on during breakfast, how nice is that?
Enjoy, California - this is why the rest of the country is so chubby and pasty - by the time games end out here, you're too exhausted to head out and do anything productive.
That and every meal in Green Bay is served with a pound of fried cheese in lieu of a bread basket.
*Side note: Maybe I'm brainwashed after reading the Simmons column this week tonight, but how much better would this CBS Halftme show be if any of the color commentators were replaced by the smart-aleck Masshole who is on the NFL Network commercials at the diner?
A lot better. Much, much better.
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1 comment:
I'd totally dig the West Coast schedule, but more for the night games. You get your full complement of sports (i.e. Monday Night Football, regular season college basketball and baseball) from the Eastern and Central time zones that end "early" in terms of the Pacific time zone and then you get another round of all of the West Coast games that will all end before the end of prime time (since the West Coast is on the "East Coast" TV schedule, where prime time starts at 8 pm and the local news is at 11 pm). You basically get to watch double the amount of sports and still be able to catch the local news while going to bed at a decent hour.
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