One of the travails of an old man is waking up too damn soon every morning. A day of sleeping-in is a quarterly celebration at best. More and more, my "go to sleep" sleep habits are attuned to the setting of the sun.
The rising habits remain kind of constant. Waking up at before five every morning and not getting back to sleep isn't that big of a burden and it is the quietest time of the day to just be.
Almost watched a full football game for the first time this year yesterday. Can't really say that I was impressed. Watching the Packers implode and fall apart was kind of interesting. There really wasn't that big a difference in the quality of the players, but watching the Buc's suddenly smell blood in the water and then proceed to dismember the Pack was kind of af fascinating. I didn't stay around to witness the kill. When I left to drive home late in the fourth quarter, the die was cast and the only thing pending was the final gun.
One of the things that it interesting about American football is that it is the closest thing that this pampered culture allows to a hunting pack or a war band. It allows us a glimpse of a long-gone past and the future simultaneously. That is why it is soooooo unpopular with the "elite" boogies and the wimmen. It does tend to display a more primal nature and lets one glimpse the bonding needed to do difficult and dangerous tasks. That is why yesterday's game was so pleasant. Watching a team come together for the kill and watching a team fall apart with a little adversity was an object lesson as to why participation trophies are so meaningless.
I am kind of wondering if this sudden turnaround and the nature of the sport isn't why the sport itself is strugging a little this year? It is one thing to when one is fat, dumb and happy and all the bills are paid and nature is safely behind triple-pane windows and the paychecks are regular to indulge in a bit of fantasy through the miracle of marketing and play acting. It is quite another when reality intrudes in the form of a virus, a serious economic downturn, and a dysfunctional and corrupt political system. Watching play-acting simulacra of a violent and unpredictable past just doesn't appear to be what the masses want to see.
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