A Sporting Time

Can you just sit there and watch sports on television? I know, it sounds silly for me to ask, but I am really amazed by people who can.

I don't know how they do it! If I see sports on television I get twitchy (except golf, that's just valium on TV combined with bad fashion, and sporting commentators with hangovers...We're talking instant nap with that stuff on, though I do admit to a certain urge to mow and fertilize my lawn when golf comes on.) I can't just SIT there, I want to go DO something. Run, lift weights, bike, play the game they're playing, whatever - but SOMETHING! I don't know how people can stand to just sit there in their recliner and do nothing. Or worse, mindlessly shoving all sorts of nutritionally unsound food into their mouths for 4 hours straight.

The closest I can come to sitting through sports of any kind, is when I attend it in person. Even then, while I can appreciate the skill of the players even to the point of envy, I just can't SIT there the whole time. I must get up and move! There must be something wrong with me (yes, I know there are many things wrong with me, shush!) Seeing people physically pushing themselves makes me want to go and do the same thing! Why doesn't it make other people feel that way? The only time those sports-watchers make sense to me is when I see them in the gym on a treadmill or something, pounding away while a game is on.

My husband LOVES to grab a beer, pizza, chips, brownies (whatever it is he can dig up, or sneak into the house) and watch sports - soccer in particular, with football being his second love. He just wants to sit there, and shout at the screen. I just don't get it. I always think of a comedian who talked about her boyfriend shouting at the screen and her saying to him "Honey, they can't hear you" and her husband replying "I KNOW THAT, they have HELMETS on!"

I HAVE tried though! Growing up, my dad was a very busy guy, and when he wasn't working he LOVED watching basketball (football being his second runner up that I recall.) He had a total ritual with setting up his chips and dip, and a GIANT cup of Pepsi. So, as a kid, I tried to get in on that....What ended up happening is that I couldn't sit still for the game, but I could for the chips! Ha! Yeah... I know... Not my best moment.

To this day, the TV goes on to sports, and I go on out of the room and go do something else. It's not derision for the sport or anything (I'm not a football-widow or anything), it's simply that I am incapable of sitting through it. Do any of you feel this way? Or CAN you sit through it, even prefer to? Why?

Just curious....DH just sputters "cause....cause.... cause it's cool and I love it!" That's sort of the equivalent of telling the kids "Because I said so, that's why!" :)

Well, since I have this horrible cold and I'm not sleeping well, I think I'll go turn on some golf.