{"id":47,"date":"2006-02-06T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/wordpress\/?p=47"},"modified":"2006-02-06T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-06T22:01:00","slug":"super-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/06\/super-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read an interesting tidbit in the Washington Post<\/em> yesterday morning:<\/p>\n

In the past 20 years, football has sharply widened its lead over baseball as America’s favorite professional sport, according to a Harris Poll in December. Fans choose football over baseball, basketball and auto racing combined, the poll found.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Huh. I don’t know what it means, more than what it says, when “fans choose football.” Meaning fans choose football as their favorite sport, is what I would guess. What it means in terms of team revenue or league revenue or television audience or player salaries, is still left quite undefined.<\/p>\n

I know that I like football, certainly more than basketball or auto racing, neither of which I like or follow or can or will even watch. Auto racing? Good grief.<\/p>\n

I used to watch baseball, a little, some, at least more than I do now, but have never followed a team much. I actually live only a couple blocks from a Major League Baseball stadium now, but only went once to (not) see a game that got rained out.<\/p>\n

But I don’t even especially follow football, just watch it with Dawn. I like watching it, but will live if we miss a game.<\/p>\n

Dawn makes fun of me for calling the game as I watch it, of my need to comment on every play, as if I actually knew what I was talking about. I think I get that from my mother. I always enjoyed watching football with her, and we sort of chatted to each other and with each other via comments around and about what was going on in the game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read an interesting tidbit in the Washington Post yesterday morning: In the past 20 years, football has sharply widened its lead over baseball as America’s favorite professional sport, according to a Harris Poll in December. Fans choose football over baseball, basketball and auto racing combined, the poll found. Huh. I don’t know what it … Continue reading Super Sunday<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}