As I’m watching the NFL draft and Tigers baseball in my easy chair, it seems like a good time to chat about my life in sports. I’ve never been remotely athletic which has diminished my interest in sports certainly. My dad has always been a big sports fan so that kept me into it as I was growing up so I wasn’t a complete loser. I remember watching basketball a lot in the 80s when the Pistons were good and we’ve always watched Lions football on Sundays and listened to the Tigers on the radio when working in the garage, but when I moved out I kind of got out of it all. Except Michigan football. I lived in Ann Arbor, you can’t ever get away from Michigan football.
I got back into it when I met Becky. Our initial courtship coincided with the magical 2006 Tigers run to the World Series so we watched a lot of those games at bars on dates and attended a few in person but it was mainly football that was our thing because Becky had season tickets. Kind of a twist on the standard relationship roles, eh? Once we started going to football games regularly I was hooked. Hooked to a ridiculous degree. This also reignited the full flame of my UM football interest. So between 2007-2008 we were all about football and forgot about baseball.
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