Today is a day that would mean absolutely nothing to Eric, and yet to millions of college football fans it’s a great day! As I have written about before, Eric was an athlete, but mostly in solo sports. He ran and hiked, he was a scuba diver and a tennis player, but he didn’t really go in for team sports. He didn’t play them and he didn’t watch them.
In my house today is huge. My husband and I both went to different Big Ten schools (you don’t want to be here when we play each other) and we both love to watch the games. The build up to the start of the season is intense. Some Saturdays it gets hard to leave the house as we watch one game after the other. Our boys have the proper jerseys and we fight over whose team they will support. Eric never understood this.
I think that’s ok though. There are a lot of things he did that I never understood. Like driving 40 miles just to sit in a coffee shop and work on his laptop, he couldn’t find a closer place to do that?? Or furnishing his apartment without a couch—thanks for the reminder Katie—those movie theatre chairs were nice, but I need a place to curl up under a blanket.
So today I’ll watch football and it won’t really make me think of Eric, except that inevitably he would call during a game and not understand why I didn’t want to talk. So maybe I will think of him during the game after all.
Go Cats!
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