Thank You, Coach and Tammy

Everything I know about football I learned by watching Friday Night Lights.  That is, on a Football Knowledge scale of 1 to 10, I come in right around 2.  This is a huge improvement, actually.  I really did pick up a thing or two watching that show.  Before that I was a -1. 


And it's a good thing too, because suddenly Tai is fascinated by the sport.  In the past three days alone I've had to (a) watch him line up his stuffed animals in opposing teams and execute a blitz, (b) "play" football with him in the backyard, to the best of my ability, and (c) watch 30 minutes of a Bears/Packers game on TV with him.

Watching football with that boy is quite the experience.  He asks questions every 6 seconds.  And, not knowing the football lingo as well as I should, my explanations are wordy.  By the time I'm halfway through explaining that, "that guy handed the ball off to the other guy, who threw it, but then it landed on the ground and that's called an incomplete pass (I think)" he's already asked two more questions. 

He is only four, so right now I can just about satisfy him with my "2" of Football Knowledge.  But soon that will not be enough.  Someday soon he will realize that football is not meant to be played one-one-on and that I've been letting him tackle me.  Soon he will realize that I have no idea what "first and 10"  or "2 minute warning"  or "2-point conversion" mean.  Not a freaking clue.  Luckily, Minh knows all that shit.

I don't know how long this interest in football will last.  Hopefully it will last a couple more weeks, because I just bought Tai and Minh tickets to a college football game.  But if this becomes one of Tai's true passions I'm going to have to learn a lot more about the sport.   Before having Tai, I never dreamed I'd know so much about dinosaurs or classical music.  Maybe football is next.