A Sports Sunday

This is a sports Sunday.  The weather is beautiful autumn style, mid-60's and sunny during the day and cooling down to the 50's at night.  What does that have to do with sports.  It reminds me of college years and early work years in my 20's when almost all of my hometown friends, and yours truly, would be at home for Thanksgiving and we would have these great touch football games.  We were all young, but whether being in college or being in jobs, we were not in shape for the stop and go, pushing and shoving of highly competitive touch football.  That led to good aches and pains, all the more reason to collapse in front of the television to watch someone else play real football.

That's a memory, not really possible it seems these days.  Today is a sports Sunday because because of so much good television.  Giants and Redskins, a legendary rivalry, with the rookie RJ3 against Eli, great game;  Jets and Patriots, bitter rivalry, will the talented, inconsistent, and relatively boring Sanchez hold his own against Brady,  will the flawed but entertaining Tebow get more playing time as some Jets fans get frustrated with his lack of playing time given his winning ways;  baseball too in the evening as the Giants face elimination if they don't win again against the Cardinals back at home in SanFran, big fan bias here as the Giants(as in NY Giants) had a farm club in my hometown throughout my early years which created a lifelong loyalty.  

It is not possible to watch all of this.  I watch some and then do other things, errands, reading, a clean up project in the basement, coming back to online ESPN from time to time to see how scores are progressing and whether it's time to actually watch again for awhile.  It's a great diversion for a day, but now it's out to the driveway to do some clean up on one of the cars and get a last taste outside of this beautiful day.