It was great while it lasted.
The suppression of my sports gene, that is.
This past summer I made some pretty good strides in controlling what I felt to be a unhealthy emotional attachment to certain sports teams – so good, that I managed to gingerly step back to the sports page without too many issues.
Well, it’s back, it a really big way – the Green Bay Packers are in the NFC Championship game, with a chance to go to the “Big Game” two weeks later (sorry, I can’t call it by its real name because I haven’t paid the NFL for that privilege).
This Sunday, I will be glued to the TV set. I’ll pace, I’ll fidget, I’ll throw up my hands, I’ll celebrate – all the stuff I was trying to avoid.
Here’s the thing – I’ve been doing this since I was 6 years old. I have a vivid memory of the 1967 NFL championship game where the Packers beat the Cowboys in the famed “Ice Bowl”.
When this happens, it’s in my blood – it’s part of my being.
It’s more than the sports gene – it’s the “nostalgic heart tug associated with childhood memories and attachment” gene.
Now THAT’s a real tough one to kick.
GO PACK! 
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I’ll be cheering along with you, since my boys got the better of yours in the 90’s in the “Big Game.” That was a great two years for me… /sigh
Distant memories of days gone by. At least your still have your quarterback.
Ah yes, Jesse, indeed we do. We’ll see how he does tonight on the (really) “frozen tundra”. Should be very interesting. All the best!
How very coincidentally funny that an email about another person we both used to know should have brought me to google to check him out; and that triggered a google of YOU which brought me here!
The coincidence is that this happened the weekend that your beloved Packers were playing in the playoffs. (brr, I’m still cold from watching it.) I’d just remarked to someone that I used to know an avid Packers fan who brought that into my world, and hence I’d be rooting for them in the playoffs, and hopefully the SuperBowl. Sigh. Mebbe next year!
Great site, and what an interesting range of posts and topics! I won’t say more as this is a public comment, but I imagine my email addy is visible to you. All the best from someone who is still reminded of *you* by I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues!