The Sports Bizzo

By Jon…

(See also… Jon Wants a National Title and Some Butterscotch… Be sure to be at the South Congress Bridge tonight if the Horns do win the National Championship. Jon’s gonna run down it naked…)

I told Toph about a week and a half ago that my New Year’s resolution was to rededicate myself to the Biz. Well, here we are a week into the New Year, and what have I done about it…

Nada.

So I’m going to do my job, live up to my word, and drop some Bizzo on all of you…

Here:

I had a conversation with someone the other day, the same conversation I have with most everyone who’s just getting to know me.

“Wait, you like sports?”

To which I reply, “Absolutely, I have been since I was a kid.”

And it’s true.

Quick tangent:

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I was at my Uncle Rey’s house in Bastrop. He’s a lifelong golfer who always lives right next to a golf course.  Anyway, we were sitting around talking about language. Uncle Rey made a point about how kids will invariably remember their primary language. If they learned it first, and learned it early, it will stick with them for the rest of their lives. It may start to atrophy if they don’t use, but they will always retain some connection to it.

He, of course, was speaking of their upbringing as Spanish speakers who learned English in school.

I, however, am using the quick tangent as a metaphor for my life as a sports fan.

When I was a kid, all of the kids in my neighborhood played sports. My dad played on his work softball team and we went to the game’s every week. And as a result, I spoke sports. My Uncle Lando used to call from San Francisco, and when I answered, he would tell me it was Tommy Lasorda or Tony LaRussa.

Most of my friends now, we’re all in to comic books at that age. And sure, I went to the comic book store as frequently as they did.

I never bought comic books, though. Just baseball cards. Lots and lots of baseball cards.

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I guess looking at me now, it is a little surprising that I can rattle off an inordinate amount of sports trivia. It comes in handy. Especially during Trivial Pursuit games.

I guess the real point I’m getting at, is that people love different things for different reasons. And it doesn’t matter their reasons are. I love sports, because I’ve always loved sports. It was my primary hobby as a kid, and I’ll always retain some sort of connection to it.

Incidentally, Texas and Alabama are playing for the National Title tonight, and I’m effin’ pumped and it’s why I decided to write this article about my love for sports.

Because night’s like tonight are why being a sports fan is one of the greatest things in the world.