Night Owl Cards

  I watched hardly any of the Super Bowl last night and I was trying to think of the last time I didn't watch it.   My first thought was maybe 2015, because the teams were the Seahawks and Patriots that year, too (I don't like either team). But this was when the Super Bowl was required viewing for my job. I was at the office and between 2002 and 2022, I was working during the Super Bowl. We'd watch the game at the office, then get the results in the paper.   So, my lowest-viewed Super Bowl had to occur before that, but it gets fuzzy. It's possible I didn't watch much of the Ravens-Giants in 2001 because zero interest in those teams, too. But it's also possible I haven't watched so little of the Super Bowl since the mid-1970s when I was just starting to get into football.   I began the Super Bowl last night in the kitchen washing the dishes (yes, that's how much I cared). Then I went to my card room and started a little reorganizing that is taking place t...

  I feel like my position on the NFL is stuck between two prevailing opinions of football, with few sharing my perspective.   On one end are the people who are madly devoted to the league, they tailgate, leap on tables, hold Super Bowl parties, place bets, play in five fantasy leagues and collect the hell out of the star players. On the other end are the people who have dropped football from their lives -- It's barbaric, it shortens lives, it worships only money and some of its participants are some of the worst humans in sport.   I am neither of those perspectives (though I share traits from both). I like the NFL season -- far more than college football, which I can't wait to ignore forever. I am excited when the NFL starts, I appreciate it when there's no more MLB season, I enjoy the community that encircles the Bills and it is one of the few connections to my favorite city and the time I lived there.   I can't give it up. But it wears on me. too.   When was t...