Bryon Daly wrote:
>
> >From: Kevin Tarr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >There didn't seem to be much interest here, I thought. I watched the
> >penultimate stage live, postponing a bike ride of my own until I saw the
> >result. Then I recorded the same stage while I was work, just to see if I
> >missed anything. I treid to record the final day, but messed something up.
>
> I didn't get to watch any if it, live or otherwise, so I had to content
> myself with following via web coverage, because my wife's tolerance for
> sports on TV is measured in nanoseconds. :-)
Hm. Anything you can do about that? (Or do you want to, even?)
Dan's mother wasn't interested in football when she married Dan's
father. Dan's father enjoyed watching football games on TV, and asked
her to join him, and explained what was going on, first in simple terms,
and when she got those, went into more of the nuances.
When I married Dan, I wasn't really interested in football on TV. I
mean, I'd watched the Texas vs. Texas A&M matches on Thanksgivings when
we were celebrating the holiday with his relatives (some of his cousins
were *really* into it), but I was clueless a lot of the time. So one
season, Dan asked me to watch one football game a week with him, and he
explained what was going on. (It didn't hurt that his team was having a
winning season.) By the end of the season, I had a much better grasp of
the game -- and a lot more interest.
Both Dan's mother and I are now more into football than our husbands.
:)
I don't pay much attention to basketball until the playoffs.
I have an ambivalent attitude about baseball. Trying not to get sucked
into the whole "Who's ahead -- the Red Sox or the Yankees?" thing that I
tormented myself with in college, and if I start paying too much
attention to baseball, that's going to happen. I'll watch hockey, but
I'm never glued to it for 3 whole periods. (I was watching it a lot
more when Sammy was under a year old and still being breastfed a fair
bit -- nothing like a sporting event when you're sitting there with a
baby attached to your nipple.)
I didn't really watch the Tour de France much until this year, but I'm
supposed to be somewhat horizontal a number of hours each day, and I
could time it so that I got a 2-hour block of coverage on OLN at the
same time I was lying down. I really enjoyed that. I got a lot more
into it than I'll probably be able to for the next few years. There
were a few times I missed the afternoon coverage and wanted to watch it
in the evening, and Dan would sit in the room and read and look at the
TV occasionally. A few times he said he never thought that he could get
as interested in a cycling race as he was.
Julia
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