Football

Today I will start a series of occasional posts on football. By that I mean American football, NFL football.

Tomorrow we will have the first preseason game: The Baltimore Ravens at the Philadelphia Eagles. The Colts will play the Rams later in the day.

I like watching football. One of the things I like is that I have no control over the outcome of the game. I am free to sit there, watch, and enjoy.

When we moved to the St. Louis area the nearest NFL team was the Kansas City Chiefs. I bought a Chiefs sweatshirt. Sometime prior to our moving here they had move the St. Louis Cardinals to Arizona. Not a good thing. A few years later they moved the Los Angeles Rams to St. Louis, something I suppose the Californians didn't appreciate either.

In 2000 the Rams won Super Bowl XXXIV against the Tennessee Titans. Dick Vermeil was the coach and Kurt Warner was the quarterback replacing the injured Trent Green. Ironically, Warner later transferred to the Arizona Cardinals who won a Super Bowl in 2008. Quite a player.

So forgive me if I don't pay much attention to cancer for a while.