Friday Five
If you read the Web site you know the drill by now:
1. Do you watch sports? If so, which ones?
Rarely, though I've been caught up in baseball with the Red Sox doing so well, and I generally like football. But watching sports wasn't really part of my environment growing up (something else I can lay blame for at the feet of my single mother [wink]), so I'm not as rabid or fanatical as other men I've met.
Also, I usually find myself doing other things with my time on weekends -- shopping with Bonnie, or taking her and the kids some place.
2. What/who are your favorite sports teams and/or favorite athletes?
As I'm not really that much of an enthusiast for any sports, I can't really say with any degree of accuracy that I have absolute favorites, but I guess geography is probably the biggest pull for me here: The Pats, Red Sox, Bruins, the Revs, Celtics.
In terms of individual athletes, I enormously respect Lance Armstrong for continuing to kick ass as much as he does.
3. Are there any sports you hate?
Naw. Just ones that I have lesser or greater degrees of ambivalence to.
4. Have you ever been to a sports event?
Sure, plenty of times. I like pro soccer games the best for the energy of the fans, and the fact that it's a real multi-cultural mix.
5. Do/did you play any sports (in school or other)? How long did you play?
I skied really avidly until I was a young adult -- I haven't in a number of years, mainly because it's a hugely expensive thing to do, both for the cost of equipment and outerwear and also for the cost of lift tickets, and because even in this region it really means a weekend trip as opposed to a day trip -- and with three kids in tow and a wife that doesn't do well with heights, well, it's kind of a deal-killer.
In school, however, no, I didn't do any sports at all. I didn't go to college and in high school I ended up at a private school of last resort for my junior and senior years. The school was tiny, and didn't have any sort of athletics program (there were no facilities to do any of that stuff with). We didn't have a prom, either. To be honest, those are both two rites of passage in high school that I'm just as happy to have done without.