Summary
With the onset of the football season, my wife has expressed her usual doubts about my life as a sports fan devoted to a wide variety of disappointing teams. Once again, she asks a number of good questions to which I can supply no reasonable answers. Why get so upset when the Bills blow another game in the fourth quarter? What's the point of fretting about the Red Sox, a team you've watched in person only once in your entire life? Do we really have to put up with your black moods when Notre Dame gets pounded in another bowl game?
Let it go, she wisely advises. Every year I agree with her and make a firm resolution to turn off the television, stop reading the sports pages and devote my weekends to family outings and home repairs.See the full content of this document
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Special Olympics has Saved My Faith in Sports
There is ample evidence to support my wife's impatience with my life as a 21st century sports fan. Much of my own interest in professional s...
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