Usually on the first day of a New Year you see a lot of people in the parks getting on with their New Year's Resolution to live a more healthy lifestyle.
It was not all that many degrees above freezing today, and a wind was blowing, both factors which, I think, made it cold enough for some to postpone the start of their New Year's Resolution.
That and there are football games on TV today.
I got a call on my way to Fosdic Lake and during the course of that call I was asked if I knew what time the Rose Bowl game started.
I had no idea. I am not a football fan. I don't get what can be so interesting about watching a football game that causes people to watch them, over and over and over again. Endless variations of the same theme is what those games look like to me.
But, much, much, much more watchable than the version of football the rest of the world plays, that version of football that Americans call soccer.
The person asking me if I was watching the Rose Bowl seemed to be shocked when I said no, I won't be watching. But, Fort Worth is playing in the Rose Bowl, I was told.
Huh? The Rose Bowl is a game that goes back way into ancient times, where the top team in the Pac-10 plays the top team in the Big-10. Teams like Washington, Oregon, California, Stanford, Arizona, UCLA, playing teams like Michigan.
I was told that TCU from Fort Worth is playing Wisconsin. In the Rose Bowl. Today.
I tell you, Fort Worth playing in the Rose Bowl is just one more sign that our world has gone totally mad.
I looked it up. #3 TCU plays #5 Wisconsin, in the Rose Bowl, at 4:30 ET 3:30 CT. Today.
Now that I know there is a Fort Worth connection to the Rose Bowl, just try and stop me from watching.
