this evening was the first (of not very many) times that i have ever sat and watched all four quarters of a football game. considering i do understand the rules and primary objectives of football, i must admit, i had my adrenaline going when someone (anyone, can't really judge whose team i was on for something i so loosely associate with) was heading towards the end-zone. i was the sole female but i had a stable sense of belonging because i was not surrounded by meat head sport fanatics, but civilized, yet spirited (and even somewhat emotional) commentators who would politely explain anything i missed.
throughout the game my neck began to pulse with cricks and pain because i was literally sinking into the green leather couch. sinking, as if it were a pool of quick-moss. it was too comfortable. it became a task to remove myself from it to go to the bathroom or grab a beverage.
if i could not understood football as the elementary level that i do, i surely would have been intoxicated tonight; but on the contrary, my restraints have succeeded.