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I can hardly believe that I get to say this: I just watched Roger Staubach and Tom Landry defeat the New York Giants in the last seconds of the game. YouTube was my time machine, taking me back to 1979.
The path was circuitous. It began when I took to watching baseball games, which I did because there were too few movies that could keep me interested, if you recall. Then, I figured I could use something regular to watch on YouTube to sweeten my Internet time. I discovered that some people record and upload baseball games. Problem solved, right?
Not really. It proved annoying to try to keep track of two baseball games at the same time: the one I have recorded on TV and the one on YouTube.
How about football? It turns out that people also upload those games on YouTube. And now I am set.
Actually, watching the football game opened up one of Pandora's boxes.
In line with cool liberal thought, I had been looking on football with more than a little disdain, as a game of big brutes banging each other up, literally beating each others' brains to a grim, slow death.
Even so, I could not help being dragged into the game and there transfixed. How can anyone watch baseball when you can watch this chaotic and wild warfare that is only missing weapons and tanks? It makes it kind of difficult to go back to watching a pitcher and a catcher tossing a baseball back and forth for a couple of hours.
I started looking for more football games on YouTube, and this is when I remembered my old wish to see the old Cowboys games from the 1970s that I watched when I was a boy and when I still had some notion of becoming a football player myself, and so I looked for them, and I found some.
And it was more than just the game itself. It was as though the game was first recorded on videotape, and he did not just record the game. He also captured some of the commercials, and I almost cried from nostalgia overload. Of course, I loathe commercials, but it is another matter when we are talking about commercials from almost forty years ago. And the TV listings! "Alice", "WKRP in Cincinnati", "The White Shadow", "The Jeffersons" and all those old TV shows. God, I wish I could drop into that TV era regularly. I don't really want to watch those old shows, but as a kind of addition to the commercials, I would not mind seeing little scenes from them, just to give me a taste of what I once did watch and how I spent way too much of my time.
I want to keep up my interest in baseball, but when football season kicks off this weekend, I am afraid that might be a losing struggle. But talk about an embarrassment of riches! And there are bound to be a few movies that I want to watch. At least I am no longer hurting for viewing material for my meals. I wouldn't mind having a couple of more meals in the day. I think I can see myself taking an easy day on occasion and setting up my solitaire board before the TV and spending much of an afternoon or evening watching games.
The path was circuitous. It began when I took to watching baseball games, which I did because there were too few movies that could keep me interested, if you recall. Then, I figured I could use something regular to watch on YouTube to sweeten my Internet time. I discovered that some people record and upload baseball games. Problem solved, right?
Not really. It proved annoying to try to keep track of two baseball games at the same time: the one I have recorded on TV and the one on YouTube.
How about football? It turns out that people also upload those games on YouTube. And now I am set.
Actually, watching the football game opened up one of Pandora's boxes.
In line with cool liberal thought, I had been looking on football with more than a little disdain, as a game of big brutes banging each other up, literally beating each others' brains to a grim, slow death.
Even so, I could not help being dragged into the game and there transfixed. How can anyone watch baseball when you can watch this chaotic and wild warfare that is only missing weapons and tanks? It makes it kind of difficult to go back to watching a pitcher and a catcher tossing a baseball back and forth for a couple of hours.
I started looking for more football games on YouTube, and this is when I remembered my old wish to see the old Cowboys games from the 1970s that I watched when I was a boy and when I still had some notion of becoming a football player myself, and so I looked for them, and I found some.
And it was more than just the game itself. It was as though the game was first recorded on videotape, and he did not just record the game. He also captured some of the commercials, and I almost cried from nostalgia overload. Of course, I loathe commercials, but it is another matter when we are talking about commercials from almost forty years ago. And the TV listings! "Alice", "WKRP in Cincinnati", "The White Shadow", "The Jeffersons" and all those old TV shows. God, I wish I could drop into that TV era regularly. I don't really want to watch those old shows, but as a kind of addition to the commercials, I would not mind seeing little scenes from them, just to give me a taste of what I once did watch and how I spent way too much of my time.
I want to keep up my interest in baseball, but when football season kicks off this weekend, I am afraid that might be a losing struggle. But talk about an embarrassment of riches! And there are bound to be a few movies that I want to watch. At least I am no longer hurting for viewing material for my meals. I wouldn't mind having a couple of more meals in the day. I think I can see myself taking an easy day on occasion and setting up my solitaire board before the TV and spending much of an afternoon or evening watching games.
