Monday, December 19, 2005
Hail to the Redskins
Countertrey describes the agonizing sacrifices made by the die hard sports fan:
One of my sons sprained a knee in wrestling practice and didn’t tell me until Friday night, and both sons got sick, so you can imagine the conflict that I felt when I had to eat my tickets to yesterday’s Redskins game. And, I had no means of getting my tickets to the charity that I normally send them to given the late notice. Right up until the last minute I was rationalizing why it would have been okay to take our sick sons out in thirty-degree weather with one hobbling on a sprained knee. Daddy dearest.
I was looking forward to screaming my lungs out. I was expecting a huge celebration. I watched the game in HD and 5.1 stereo and it was loud, and it was almost like I was there, but not quite. What made it worse was that four of the Redskins scores and many of the defense’s big plays were on my side of the field: two of Cooley’s three TDs; Santana Moss’s unbelievable diving catch, and later his run after a rocket screen; and Mike Sellers’ TD were all on my side. Each time, I turned to my wife and said “that was right in front of our seats.”
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Cassandra, at
Mon Dec 19, 06:09:00 PM:
That game was completely awesome. I thought I was hallucinating a few times - I kept waiting for them to screw it up but it never happened. Un-freaking believable :)
