Showing posts with label athletes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label athletes. Show all posts

2.01.2015

The 15 Stages of Super Bowl Grief


These stages begin in childhood and carry on, each stage representing a successive year of the Super Bowl, progressing onward into adulthood:

1. Super Bowl? Hmm....

2. Super Bowl!

3. Suuperrrr Bowlllll!!!

4. Yeah, ok. Super Bowl.

5. Eh, Super Bowl. But commercials?!

6. Commercials!!

7. Eh, just the commercials...

8. Ugh...commercials. And nacho cheese dip!

9. Only the half time show. ONLY.

10. No more Super Bowl! Down with Super Bowl!

11. What? You don't still watch the Super Bowl do you?!

12. Someone else: "Wait. You're not watching the Super Bowl?" NO!!

13. Someone else: "Not even for the commercials?" NOOO!!!

14. ----- ------ ------ ----- ------ ------- ----- ...... (in other words, silent, bitter, pride filled resentment)

15. Huh? What? Super Bowl? ....Oh yeah, Super Bowl....No, just Netflix....Ah....Netflix!

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2.17.2014

Realization: My Kids Will Never Become Professional Athletes

Noell Pikus-Pace, winner of the silver medal in the skeleton at the 2014 Sochi Olympic Games (Photo from the L.A. Times)
Alternate Title 1: Are Professional Athletes Grotesque? —David Foster Wallace on Sports
Alternate Title 2: Realization: I Don't Have What it Takes to be a Pro-Athlete Dad 

With one very simple technique I have trained my sons to feel like champions: