In another thread, Furious Marmot wrote of my post: “Me, is that you?”
Now I get to return the favor. 
I’ve almost started this thread myself, and have the same complaints. The fascination with men in matching outfits playing games with balls completely escapes me. They’re not from our town, or often even our country. The coach is from somewhere else… the owner’s from another state, and you don’t know any of them personally. AFAIK, the Dallas Cowboys have never even been located in Dallas. Why?.. Why, must every conversation be ramrodded onto this subject?
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Explaining my Dad’s 6-year project of building a house from only discarded materials (trying to prove housing needn’t cost so much), I’m stopped mid sentence by “Dja see when Buford throwed that Ball?” And the conversation is lost to sports.
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Talking about delivering a plane the previous weekend and how the heater got stuck on max, and how comical it looked after landing in Cincinnatti and trying to get my shirt back on while taxiing… and “Didja see when Buford catched that Ball?” And our subject is sports again.
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Telling about my previous job and how we used diving bells to reach the construction project at 600 foot depth, and the comical diver who always took a broomstick to poke at the fish (he was afraid of them) and… “Didjall see when Buford missed ketchin’ that Ball?” And it’s sports again.
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Discussing with a co-worker the really quiet generator setup I built in my garage, and how I’d managed to use it in Yellowstone on vacation (in generator-free zones) and no one had noticed and… “Did Ya’ll see when Buford dropped that Ball?” and again, and again.
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Exploring the boonies in my ATV I found an old (really old) cabin and a still… “Didja see Buford…”
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Four-wheeling in my truck to a ghost town out west and…“Didja see Buford…”
I really don’t give a shit about grownups in matching colors throwing things to each other, but I actually make myself watch in order to converse with my co-workers. They are apparently unable to discuss any other subjects.
Gah… to have an intelligent conversation with someone that doesn’t involve sports. Maybe someday. :rolleyes: