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You’re more interested in remodeling the kitchen, worshipping Mammon and barbecuing burgers.

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YEP. As well as who is next in line for the Super Bowl, The World Series, the Stanley Cup, the Rose Bowl, the Orange Bowl, the Masters Tournament, the Kentucky Derby, the Big East Championship, The Big 12, The Big 10 ...

Since I was young, I watched my Dad ignore my mom for HOURS at a time to make sure he tuned into The Big Game. Then he sat there, drank his beers and didn’t lift a finger ...for hours.

Now it’s all about the big tailgate, the big party at your house, getting that flat screen so you can invite everyone over for wings. It’s fun, don’t get me wrong, and people need reasons to socialize ...but it lulls us into complacency and sucks up HOURS of time. I can’t get over how much people just natter on on Facebook about sports ...it’s ALL they talk about. It has replaced Church in our society. It IS what we worship. Guys from my high school years ...have turned into sports ZOMBIES.

And THEN it’s time to remodel ....ooooohhhh, so we can brag about that big deck we just put on.

And it’s convenient, because it gets us, particularly MEN, out of doing what is truly required of them to keep a free country. This sports fanaticism — I think it’s been going on now for a very long time — about 40 years or so.

Just ‘saying.