Highs and Lows
Highs:
- Buckeyes crush Northwestern
- Indians clinch the AL Central for the first time since 2001
Lows:
- Derek Anderson and the Browns’ offense fails to show up for the first half in Oakland
- The Browns miss the game-winning field goal
My brother and I had a blasphemous conversation this morning about how much nicer Sundays would be if we didn’t hitch our wagons to a bad bandwagon. Sunday was a gorgeous day here in Cleveland and we very well could have enjoyed the day in any of 100,000 ways. Instead, we geared up and got nervous for a football game that ended up crushing my spirit.
I don’t have any kind of conclusions, and I don’t see myself abandoning football anytime soon, but it does lead to a lot of “what it” scenarios. What if I could just wait until the weather turns permanently nasty in Cleveland toward the end of October before I started paying attention to the Browns. By that time, the team would be about half way through their schedule (depending on the bye week) and I would know just how excited (or not excited) to be.
Anyway, I don’t see it happening, but if I ever decide to take back my life from the dredges of Cleveland sports, I think I will start with my Sundays. Now I will just have to think of a way to convince my wife to give up the Colts.
Maybe when Peyton Manning retires…
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its a lot easier to give up on a team like the Browns. When you’re offense plays on par with St. Ignatius you know there is a problem. I, for one, pulled a TV outside for the Central-Division-Clinching-Game-Of-The-Emm-Effing-Year and put the Browns on DVR. I didn’t watch the game until after 8:00 and it took me a little over an hour to watch the whole thing. No annoying Steve Beurlinerweisenschiesse saying the wrong name 43 times a game. no commercials. no 25 second delay in between plays.
no point in watching it at all.