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I guess that the Super Bowl and Valentine’s Day happen almost adjacent to each other every year. I guess that was more apparent to me this year, 2022, since they are actually just a day apart.

I realized that these are two things I don’t care much about, have never cared about or celebrated in any meaningful way.

My father always told me that I was a contrarian and I suppose that’s largely true. Yet I’ve long since stopped wondering why it is I don’t seem to like these things that everybody else does. Or try to suss out the pathology inherent there.

What is wrong with you, blogger?

As it turns out, nothing! I’m just a sensible person with non-mainstream tastes, which is something to celebrate and admire.

Why I’m Not a Super Bowl Fan

It’s really that I’m just not a football fan, but the Super Bowl is the appropriate focus since it’s like the Yearly High Mass for this particular endeavor.

In December, I was visiting relatives in Wisconsin and stayed with my brother and sister-in-law. During that time, there was a Green Bay Packers (the Wisconsin State Religion) game on television, and I watched it with my brother. I enjoyed this because it was quality time with my brother, not because of the game, which even after all these years, I cannot figure out how they score. Or the rules.

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Also, the quarterback Aaron Rodgers is quite easy on the eyes. It’s true and I enjoyed that part quite a bit.

But overall football is too violent and headache-inducing (for me, as the viewer). I can’t decouple it from stale cigar smoke which was my father’s habit when I was a kid, so to me football = unexpected, loud yelling and foul smelling air and the subtle creeping angst of having to go to school the next morning (likely in the cold and dark).

It’s complicated.

Why I’m Not a Valentine’s Day Fan

First of all, the colors — red, hot pink– not my faves at all, though I do have a red car and love that because it’s so easy to find in a parking lot. But I digress.

I think we’re all good at certain things. I have talents like rollerblading/ice skating (backwards, even), piano playing (sometimes, highly subjective), book writing (again, subjective) and my recipe for deviled eggs is not to be fooled with.

But romantic love has never been something I’ve excelled in. For everyone who seems never to be without a partner or a crush, this may seem unfortunate, even sad. Truthfully though, it’s just a way of being.

Valentine’s Day (to me) seems to be a way to force all of us to think “wouldn’t it be better to be part of a couple?”

Especially as I get older and care less about what people think (a gift) the more comfortable I am with myself and being single. If that changes, great. If it doesn’t ever change, that’s great, too.

It’s now really hard for me to imagine my life intertwined with another man’s. But it could happen.

Truth is, I’m more likely to get a dog. That will probably happen sooner than I fall in love with the Super Bowl and Valentine’s Day.

But not to rain on anyone’s parade. If you love these things, then you do you.

This is Betty, dead almost 30 years. Time for another furry friend?

I usually love watching winter sports, especially the figure skating, but also the ski races. This year, as has often been the case in the past, there’s controversy surrounding the Olympics.

Here’s some pros and cons on watching the Beijing Olympics.

Pros

It will entertain you and you will enjoy. Yes, this is important to your mental health, especially after all the turmoil and angst of the last couple of years (pandemics, politics, you name it!)
Support the athletes. Most of these young people have been working all their lives to get to this elite level to compete on the world stage. They deserve an audience, and for winter sports, that audience and window are brief.

Pretty, yes? Is not China, it’s Wisconsin, but it’s a winter photo from a couple of years ago. (there’s no snow where I live)

Support the tradition. At its heart, the Olympic ideal is a good one – to bring the youth of the world together in the name of sport. This, ideally, extends to their future lives where they will use this experience to work in the spirit of cooperation and diplomacy.
The commercials might be the best part. Rich corporations spare no expense to debut Olympics-specific ads during the games. This goes back to my first point on being entertained, but on a different level.
You need a break from Netflix, Hulu, HBO, Amazon and all the rest. Honestly. On a recent visit to my ophthalmologist, when he asked me what I’d been doing during the big P, I said watching a lot of Netflix. He asked, “did you finish?” I said I was close.

Where there are pros, there are also:

Cons

China is an authoritarian regime that currently operates concentration camps for its Uigher (or Uygher) Muslim minority. It’s criminal, it’s disgusting, it’s crimes against humanity. By watching the Beijing Olympics, you give tacit approval to the host country and its actions.
Don’t reward NBC. Like most giant media corporations, its news division will report on how awful China’s brutal regime is to the Uighers and Hong Kong, but still will rake in the bucks from the sports side, the Olympics. They went for the money instead of for what’s right and decent.

Not Los Angeles or China, the blogger in Shorewood, WI, in winter.

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Don’t reward China for its attempt at legitimization. By hosting these Olympics, the dictator Xi Jinping who runs China hopes to get world recognition for his authoritarian corruption. We’ve seen this movie before – Hitler in 1936, Moscow in 1980. At least in 1980, the United States found its balls and did not reward the USSR by sending a team there.
Finally, it’s a time suck and you know it. You have other things to do (like watch the Super Bowl, maybe? Needlepoint? Surely there’s something). It’s always a paradox: watching extremely fit young people competing for medals while you sink ever deeper into the recliner, your poor aging body atrophying by the minute. . .

Those are some thoughts on the pros and cons of watching the Beijing Olympics.

My choice? Perhaps it will be a hybrid, where I watch a few highlights after the fact on youtube or something like that. So I guess I will reward Google (owner of youtube) instead of NBC. Or maybe not. Maybe I’ll just find my balls and work on my own winter fitness.