By average standards K & I are what people in polite circles call sports fans.
Don't blame me - years with an ESPN mad spouse rub off. Still, yours truly is a little more tempered in her zeal. But hubby watches the majors and the minors, tracks everything from college draft picks to league players in cricket. Checks scores and updates about as often as he 'blackberrys' - basically, every other minute. Heck, he even watches (and I say this with all respect) Lacrosse and Curling.
Given all this, we've managed to surprise ourselves with how few sporting events we've actually seen on location. It's like our friends, fellow Formula One fans - who after living for years in the US, (where there's easy access to 2 GPs at Indy and Montreal), when they actually got to see a race, one was in Australia and the other's catching the action at Singapore.
We, naturally, haven't been to any. Given the karmic logic in these things, I guess, for us it'll be Shanghai.
Not that we don't have a handy list of excuses for our lapses - lack of time, lack of prior planning, event clash... Then there's always the up-close that TV viewing gives you, not to mention the joy of replays and commentary.
But still.
K's madness is relatively universal, but I simply love watching Tennis. Watch most of the majors, eagerly and often bleary-eyed into the wee hours. But all on TV, except for a few smaller events.
One fine day though, the dry spell ended. On our visit to London this summer, one of the major trip hightlights was watching Wimbledon. The matches were fun; greater was the thrill of being there - in this case the grass was indeed greener across the pond. We came back happy, determined to mend the error of our ways. So plans were made well in advance - finally - and off we went this week, to watch the early rounds of the US Open. Caught a bunch of fantastic matches, basked in the excitement of being at Flushing and came home oh so content.
The curse, as they say, was over.
But sometimes, even the third time is a charm.
A friend emailed us - he had a couple tickets to the Men's semis next weekend - by any chance would we be interested.
Damn right, my friend! Are we going. Or are we going.
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9 comments:
I think watching all matches, specially cricket matches is lot more fun on TV.
But going to see wimbledon is a great chance.
Go for it....I have also wanted to catch the action on the field rather than TV, but have just been lazy about it.
Here is where even i draw the line. Recently saw (purely by accident)Buzkashi on TV (Pls note - not on ESPN but on Travel channel!!!). Check this out - In the Afghan game of buzkashi, men on horseback compete with one another to capture an animal carcass, carry it around a goal, and throw it in the middle of the playing field to score a point. This fierce, traditional game actually has rules! (http://encarta.msn.com/sidebar_761595242/Buzkashi_in_Afghanistan.html)
Yep, even I saw that - for those not inclined to see it anytime soon - don't!
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