So it’s a Sunday afternoon, but not a lazy one. I’m not having a big gathering for the Super Bowl, but there will be a few people at the house. So preparations are in order. Drinks, snacks, food, last minute running around for things I don’t have which I thought I did…it’s just so much more of a process than it should be, right? There are just too many things on my mind at once that I’m bound to forget something.
But you know what’s not on my mind right now? What’s not there to cloud my thinking? Golf. This is probably the only weekend of the off-season when I don’t miss being out on the course, or at the range at the very least. But everyone knows that everything takes a back seat to the Super Bowl. The NBA and NHL make sure their games are over by 3:00 or so. The NCAA follows suit. Everyone knows that all eyes will be on the big game, so it’s worthless to try to compete. I haven’t done the research, and I’m not going to, but I would have to imagine that the Monday following the Super Bowl is one of the most popular “sick days” in the workplace throughout the country. It’s only a matter of time before companies start closing their doors that day…much like New Year’s Day, which is not really a holiday – it’s just a day off because businesses realized that half their workforce wouldn’t show up. And the half that did would be almost entirely unproductive.
So I follow suit as well. When Super Bowl Sunday comes around, there’s no chance that I’m going to have golf on my mind at all. As a matter of fact, the only reason I’m even taking the time to mention golf now is because I write (if you could call it that) for a golf blog. Otherwise, my entire day would be dedicated to the Super Bowl. But fear not! By next weekend, my golf jones will be back. Maybe a trip to the indoor range will be in order. After all…the first day of spring is only 45 days away! Wow, closer than you thought, right? Now that I’m thinking about it…maybe golf is not taking as much of a backseat as I thought it would.
Swing ’til you’re happy!
In most sports, the most important or biggest game of the year usually happens at the end of the season. The NFL puts the Super Bowl at the end of the year. The NBA Championship, the Stanley Cup, March Madness…they all come at the end of the season. OK, so there was a point during the 90’s when the NFC Championship was considered to be the “real” Super Bowl. Those games between the Cowboys and 49ers were epic. But in golf where, for some reason there is no actual championship, they’ve decided to do things differently.