As my friend at Life of a New Dad said recently, "I need to be rid of things that take too much time from my family."
His recent blog post about time management for dads detailed why, now that he's a father, he watches far fewer baseball games than ever before. Replace "baseball" with "football and basketball," and you've got my situation down pat.
The amount of time I used to spend viewing football and basketball games is legendary. In fact, I was so over the top with this stuff that now I have a difficult time convincing anyone who knows me that I have turned over a new leaf.
The truth is, these days I usually only watch the two or three teams that I have been ardently following since I was a young child. (NOTE: Listening to sports radio shows via podcasts and streaming are excluded from this conversation. Now back to my regularly scheduled blog.) Between being a first-time homeowner since late last year and a first-time dad for a little more than two years, my weekend TV sports binges have given way to prolonged train track planning with my Crazy Toddler and arduous yard work at length.
I'm not going to lie and say I always yearn to play with my son instead of watching that key late-season football matchup on a Saturday afternoon. Sometimes it feels like work, especially compared to the sweet, sweet laziness that drips from a jam-packed Sunday schedule. Regardless, CT needs that interaction. And I can actually have a significant effect on him, whereas the teams I root for don't seem to benefit from my devotion all that much.
How dare they? Don't they know how angry I get when they lose?
Evidently not. It's all good, though. I've got a burgeoning family that cares about me more than any of those uniformed guys inside the TV ever have.
Monday, October 4, 2010
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Thanks for the love my friend. I didn't mention basketball, but I used to be a college hoops junkie. I would watch games every night of the week. I was proud to have seen all the teams in the tourney or at least most of them play during the year. Now I only watch the Razorbacks. And they suck so much now that I even skip them sometimes. So basketball has taken a huge hit in my life too.
ReplyDeleteHa! I was going to write similar post (and may still do it) called "The Year Without The NFL". I haven't watched one game this year. Just don't have the time or the motivation to watch.
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