Out of the Loop and Onto the Track

For the first time in I don't know how many years, I turned on the Super Bowl. It's peer pressure, not interest. My world continues to revolve quite smoothly while I remain clueless about football. I understand the sport, even played some in high school (I was the only one of we four kids to come home with a black eye from playing football, I'll have you know). It's just that somewhere along the way I had to make choices on what to pay attention to and football lost out. That was somewhere around the time that the Rams moved to Anaheim.

I realized last year that I was missing a large cultural chink of life by missing the Super Bowl. I read some email from my quilting friends and they all were chattering about what Janet Jackson had done and what the repercussions would be. What did I miss?? Not a whole lot, in my book, but I still felt out of the loop.

I feel I know all that is important about professional football. I know the Cowboys are still in Dallas. I know Joe Gibbs owns Tony Stewart's Nextel Cup team. Terry Bradshaw co-owns a Busch racing team. Roger Staubach and Troy Aikman co-own a new Nextel Cup team. There are even a few other former NFLers trying to get a NASCAR team together.

So apparently I already know what the NFLers are just finding out: the real action is at the tracks!