Rob Toasted Mike Novak © 2007 Used with permission.
Saturday was a quiet day at camera-central, so quiet that Mike Novak's photo of Rob Collins may have been the bright point of the day. There certainly was a spark of brilliance if nothing else. Then there was coming home to the proposition of no football for a week. I sat around with no reason or purpose. Jenni and Meredith had been shopping or some such. Jenni had a coworkers retirement party to attend, Meredith was waiting for a call from her friend Jessica. Time passed, I played some computer solitaire, Meredith napped. Time passed, Jenni came home and she and the Meredith went to Fazoli's. I watched the second half of the Pacer's game.
If this is how it is going to be without Football I may go completely insane. And there is still the big game. THE BIG GAME! The reason that you play the other 18 or 19 games, to be in the big game! It's just one weekend without football and already I'm stir crazy. The distraction in an otherwise dreary existence is most crucial, sure there will be Nascar soon, and the Pacers are 3-1 without Rooney and Shooter Jackson so they may fill in the gaps some. But still Football has been my number one since I can remember. One of the very first books I ever read cover to cover was the biography of Bart Starr I must have been nine or ten, and it took me longer than the football season but I got through it.
O.K. back to the Pacers for a minute. That second half last night was far more than a distraction. Danny Granger took the entire team on his back and willed a comeback, and the team came with him. The pacers who were only 29% from outside the arc for the season rained threes in the second half, and finished at 50% from "The Deep." None were deeper than Marquis Daniels third quarter buzzer beater from between the opposite 3-point arc and the half court line. I suppose I could watch games like that.
Chuck Pace © 2007
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