Distractions

I love sports. I love watching them, playing them, and most of all I enjoy wagering on them. I have been involved in bets involving drinking, eating, money, or just bragging rites all over the outcome of a game. Why is this important? I have had a sort of awakening recently regarding how bad it truly is for our environment and society. I always knew it was bad but more or less didn't really care that much. That is not true, I cared but was more concerned with my american game plan: birth, baptism, school, college, marriage, good job, 35 years of work, retirement, death. I was too busy trying to compete for the best grades, best jobs, best girls to notice the world beyond 1 degree of seperation.

So anyway back to sports, they are the greatest distraction right along with pop culture and politics. The entire month of January is spent preping for the Super Bow, March is for the NCAA tourney, September is the World Series and for 17 weeks the NFL sucks the brains out of an entire country. I am not preaching I am confessing, forgive me father for I have sinned type of confession. But I am not going to stop, at this very moment I am filling out 3-5 brackets to be entered into various pools. I guess the first step in addiction is admitting there is a problem, so there it is.