dagblog - Comments for "Priorities...a Football Vignette"

So glad you liked it, NWA.

we are stardust — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:02:44 +0000

In reply to This was just simply great.

So glad you liked it, NWA. Missouri will be a hot game for sure. If you can't find a video broadcast, you can log into Nside on this site, and at least listen. (Click the audi/video dropdown menu.) http://www.huskers.com/

Have a safe and good journey to France; envy is pouring from my pores....

So glad any doubters can hear from you. Go Big Red! ;~)

This was just simply great.

NWAHusker — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:32:12 +0000

In reply to Priorities...a Football Vignette

This was just simply great. I'm sitting in the airport in Atlanta getting ready to board a flight for France. My chief concern at the moment isn't the riots in Paris, or the fuel shortages, its rather whether I can get a broadcast of the Missouri game. So the humor of Dad's response is not lost on me. Again, great story.

Shoot; and here I'd promised

we are stardust — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:56:14 +0000

In reply to Sorry, Stardust; no cigar (I

Shoot; and here I'd promised my pappy I'd learn to read one day. (Coulda liked that damned cigar, too...) ;P)

Sorry, Stardust; no cigar (I

wws — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 15:45:00 +0000

In reply to LOL! Ah; I wuz just funnin'

Sorry, Stardust; no cigar (I can say that, now) on that plagiarism call; note that I said your story "from whatever source." Ha!

LOL! Ah; I wuz just funnin'

we are stardust — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:37:21 +0000

In reply to Not so much nosy, Stardust,

LOL! Ah; I wuz just funnin' ya a bit...nothing to apologize for! And see? I goaded you a bit on gender, and you completely missed my admitting to plagiarism! Am I good, or what?!?

"Gender is as Gender does, my pappy used to say..." (Never knew what the hell he meant by it, but it sort of stuck with me!)

Not so much nosy, Stardust,

wws — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:23:02 +0000

In reply to WWS:1) We are both

Not so much nosy, Stardust, as obviously, glaringly guilty of assumptions without footnotes. My sincere apologies; I "assumed" you were a woman for what are probably glaringly sexist reasons of my own: your repeated suggestion that the solution for never-ending war is to .. end them, for example. Mea culpa.

Great story, from whatever source, in whatever voice.

Yes; the priorities can

we are stardust — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:07:34 +0000

In reply to I'm not a football fan so

Yes; the priorities can shift; and what a nice avoidance The Game was for him. There are times when compartmentalization is a useful response. I never remembered to ask if the game were on in the hospital, but I like to imagine it was, and that my aunt was glued to the game at my uncle's bedside. Too fitting for words.

And the Nebraska is going to the Big Ten next year, and will play Ohio State and I guess Michigan.

Dunno why, but I was up for this tune today. Enjoy....

Pssssst...flavius....will it

we are stardust — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:56:50 +0000

In reply to There's no pleasing some

Pssssst...flavius....will it help if i tell you it's a true story; just so blazingly an indicator of avoidance or whatever that it really was fall-on-the-floor=funny? My wife couldn't help it; i laughed, too!

I'm not a football fan so

Ramona — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:22:25 +0000

In reply to Priorities...a Football Vignette

I'm not a football fan so when we were cruising down I-80 going through Nebraska some years ago and suddenly found ourselves surrounded by cars filled with people dressed in red, waving red flags out the windows and shouting something I couldn't quite hear, I wondered what the heck was going on. My husband knew immediately and started honking his horn (even though we had Michigan license plates and weren't wearing red).

I should have known. It gets like that around Ann Arbor, too, when Michigan and Ohio State are getting ready to rumble. (Or Michigan and any other team, but especially Ohio.)

Love the imagry here, and I had no problem with the ending. It fit. Old people can be hilarious when they've shed those proprieties we all hold dear. We think we should be talking in whispers when someone who has lived a long life is about to die. Their peers know there's not much time left to enjoy the finer things in life. If the finer things involve a good game of football, what's the problem?

Love the picture, too. A nice respite from politics, for sure.

There's no pleasing some

Flavius — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:21:24 +0000

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There's no pleasing some people!