My Super Bowl plans
When I was picking up my dry cleaning yesterday, the young woman asked me what my Super Bowl plans were.
“Not watching it,” I said.
She laughed. “That’s the best answer I’ve gotten yet!”
I hadn’t even been aware that it was going to held this weekend. On Friday, I happened to be listening to the radio in my car — and who does that, when he’s got a full streaming set of Pere Ubu? But I guess occasionally it happens — when some “news” piece came on about the big game. So that’s when I found out it was happening.
A couple of months ago, my family and I went to see the fantastic King Tut exhibit downtown at the Science Center. As we were parking the car, we saw all sorts of signage everywhere announcing the “Los Angeles Rams.”
“The ‘LOS ANGELES’ Rams?” I asked. It sounded strange coming off my tongue.
“Are they here now?” my wife asked. “When did they move here?”
Our two sons didn’t know either. Finally, we asked a passerby who explained the team’s recent move. But still, we couldn’t figure where they had come from. We kept trying out other, former, names. “The Minneapolis Rams?” “The Oakland Rams?” “The St. Louis Rams?” None of them sounded right.
Later, we forgot about it. We just didn’t care enough.
Still, my wife had the best case of cultural unawareness. As we left the Science Center hours later, we came onto the plaza in the back, which abuts the back of the Coliseum, better known as the LA Coliseum. It seems more than 75,000 people.
“When did they build that?” she demanded. She was staring at all the Rams signage that was now all over it.
“About a hundred years ago.”
“No way!” she said. “I would have seen it before!”
Given that today is that Super Bowl, which promises to preoccupy many people now in the hometown of the Rams (wherever they just came from), my plan is to do grocery shopping right when the game starts. I’m betting I can cut the checkout time in half! So… see you later!
February 3rd, 2019 at 4:09 pm
When I lived in an apartment it was the best night to go to the laundromat.
February 3rd, 2019 at 11:20 pm
Superbowl Sunday was alweys a good day for Kathy& me to go to the movies.
Many years ago, My Dad told me you couldn’t go wrong betting on the Cowboys. I had $50 on them in the Superbowl this year. If they had won, the bookie would have owed me half a billion dollars.