And that’s a good thing.
Football is not real life. But boy, sometimes it’s so much better. Few things in life are as unabashedly and unassailable joyful as a 40-13 win over the Washington Huskies in the Apple Cup. In Seattle. 8 years later. It set off unbridled joy in the Ayers household that was capped off with a much-too-late martini.
People sometimes ask me (people who use terms like “sportsball,” to be clear) what the whole point of being a sports fan is. Isn’t it so boring, or morally complicated, or just kinda pointless?