Football, Norte Americano

In the mornings I check my e-mail, then read the sports page, or the online equivalent. Professional team sports interest me. Currently, I'm following the divisional races in baseball. Did the Brewers win? What's happening with the Phils/Mets, Twins/ChiSox?

The pro football season, the nation's most popular sporting pursuit, is two weeks old. Yet I'm not an enthusiast. Pro football is unfriendly to realtors. Games are almost entirely played on Sundays, typically my most impacted work day.

For many the NFL serves as a Sunday backdrop, drifting in and out of halves, a companion with lunch and dinner. I'm not the type to leave a tv on unattended. As the Raymond Shaw character says in the Manchurian Candidate, "there are two kinds of people in this world: those that enter a room and turn the television set on, and those that enter a room and turn the television set off." I seem to be one of the latter.

I will leave a radio on though, maybe that makes me a baseball fan.