Having just watched the Kansas City Chiefs win the AFC championship and thus qualify for yet another Super Bowl appearance, I admit that professional football is definitely on my list of favorite sports to watch. I played football for exactly one day in junior high, in 1967, when I was beginning the eighth grade–I had reported for two-a-day practices in mid-August (we practiced in pads with full contact right from the first day in those days), and in the afternoon practice I suffered a fairly serious break of my right arm–both bones snapped to a 90-degree angle just behind my wrist, resulting in the end of my football career for that season, as I was in a hard plaster cast from my fingers to the middle of my upper arm for thirteen weeks.
An after-school job interfered with sports for much of the remainder of my public school years, but as a junior and senior in high school, I played on the tennis team, and enjoyed it very much. I’ve played tennis often since my school days, and even into my old age, a little bit. (And I do enjoy watching tennis on TV, when I can.)
I love watching college basketball, live or on TV, and since I live in the city that is the home of the Kansas Jayhawks, who are nearly always ranked in the top ten nationally, you can probably guess my favorite team.
I don’t really know why I don’t care for college football as much as pro football, nor do I care for pro basketball as much as college basketball, but that’s the way it is for me.
I like to see baseball games, any level, from little league to the pros, especially in person. During the playoffs and the World Series I will make the effort to watch baseball on TV, but the way sports franchises are these days with broadcast rights, I rarely get the opportunity to see the teams I care about on TV, because I’m too cheap to purchase the necessary channels, streaming or cable. If there’s ever a Royals game on over-the-air broadcast TV, I’ll watch it if I know about it.
And I do like to listen to all of the above sports on the radio while I’m working in my wood shop.
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(Posted in response to 1/29/2024 prompt.)
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