just to be clear about this

[mmegaera]

The Seahawks/49ers Sunday Night Football game is not on rain delay. Not in Seattle, for crying out loud.

It's on lightning delay. We've had more lightning in the last three weeks than we've had in the entire twenty years that came before (she says, having moved here twenty years ago last month [g]).

ETA: The final score, after an hour's delay, was 29-3 Seahawks. Works for me...

Comments

[dfledermaus]

I've been around other people watching football enough that I had a vague idea that it scored in 3s and 7s, but not enough to pick up any subtleties. It's one of those games I don't mind watching in ignorance if it's important to someone else. It doesn't move me, but I can at least read the ebb and flow of the game: the movement up and down the field, and the success or failure of each phase.

Baseball and tennis I have a sentimental attachment to, as my sports-mad grandmother used to take me to games when I was a child. I'd go to a live game if I was given tickets, but wouldn't make the effort on my own, or watch on TV.

But basketball is the one that baffles me completely. I watch it and it just looks like a diagram of Brownian motion, all random movement on the court. Even when it's explained play by play, I can't grasp any strategy. It seems to be just a bunch of tall people hopping up and down, sometimes with the ball, sometimes without.

[mmegaera]

I understand at least the basics of baseball, but it bores me to tears. There's way too much just standing around in baseball.

Tennis is okay. I don't go out of my way to watch it, but I'll watch it with someone else. I sometimes end up watching golf with my mother when visiting her in Texas, but I wouldn't watch it on my own, although I do enjoy seeing the various golf courses (the US Open is going to be about ten miles from my house in 2015 -- I'm more dreading it because of the ensuing traffic than anything else [wry g]).

Basketball doesn't do anything for me, either [g]. I'm afraid hockey and soccer aren't my cuppa, either -- any game where they play for that long and run/skate up and down the field that much and a high score is two-zip...