The Side Effects of Endorphins

When I was younger

Full disclosure I’ve always been younger.

Even up to 15 years ago I was an avid sports fan. I grew up, loving baseball and following all other sports but Soccer. I probably played every sport and even garnered a scholarship for baseball, which I did not take. I still do long-distance running, playing in a racquetball league and just recently retired from soccer.

College Football =Red Card

Our family is big into college football. They really like to watch Penn State football. I was the only one who actually went there. I don’t watch it anymore. College football games last an eternity. It was suggested to me to, tape the game and skip over the commercials. It doesn’t matter that much to me to figure that out.

Baseball –yellow Card

Many years back, I was sitting watching the Phillies play the Dodgers in the playoffs. I’m a Phillies fan. All of a sudden, my wife started rooting for the Dodgers.. It never occurred to me that she was a Dodgers fan.. The Phillies won the championship that year. As a fan, I reached the apex and haven’t watched much baseball since..

Soccer -Yellow Card

We are season ticket holders for the Portland Thorns and the Portland Timbers. Soccer is part of our family. I proposed to my wife on opening day in 2008. I decided I would propose when we scored our first goal. You have to love a nil nil draw.

These days I get a little cynical and of course I have to blame capitalism. I don’t go to the game for the food, but here’s a useful comparison. At a game in Portland a beer cost $14 and a small vegan hotdog eight dollars. The tickets for a match are about $100.

I do attend Bundesliga matches in Germany, specifically Mainz and Frankfurt. There a beer will cost you six euros, vegan hotdog five euros and tickets for the matches about €40.

Capitalism has a way of diminishing the sporting experience. We did enjoy watching the University of Portland make it to the elite eight in soccer.. As an aside tickets to those matches were twelve dollars.

Super Bowl

I simply don’t do not watch pro football. But we are certainly rooting for the Seahawks this year. Do you realize the cheapest ticket to the Super Bowl is about $6000. Yay capitalism. I shall be in Berlin that day..

Here is the story the last time I went to Portland Trailblazers game.