Away Games

Back here in Texas football is the object of our idolatry. My friend across the pond in London expressed the oddity in that devotion but I explained it in this way: Football is the event in the Fall by which life here revolves and persists. I relate it to alcohol, in the way that so many societies' social interactions here and abroad uses drink as the pole to dance around. Football games allow us to make preparations, to pregame party, to tailgate, to watch, to go out after and celebrate, and/or to go out after and drown our sorrows. We go to work or school for 4 days and then indulge ourselves in High School Friday nights, college football Saturdays, and NFL Sundays - and then we do it all over again. Many novels have been written on all that is great about the game and its place here in Texas, so I will refrain from authoring another here. But there is another important effect of the game and that is that it gives us a reason to travel. Away games are half of the season and almost without our conscious recognition give us the much needed escape from that which is comfortable and constant. Over the next two weeks I will be traveling to Temple, TX and College Station, TX for games. Football gives me a reason to travel.