My Sports Year
After reading an old Rick Reilly I was inspired to write about what I would do if I had one year left to live and Money was no object.
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I recently read an old Rick Reilly article where he discusses what would be his perfect sports year. This inspired me to think about what I would do if I only had one year left to live and money was no longer an object. After thinking about it for a while (roughly 5 minutes) I came up with the 12 things that I would love to do if given the opportunity:
1.)I would purchase DAWGPOUND tickets for a Browns-Steelers game right next to BigDawg just so I could throw beer on Hines Ward. If anyone deserves it, he does.
2.) I would go to Boston and get courtside tickets at the Garden to a Cavs-Celtics game just so I could talk trash to Kevin Garnett.
3.) I would fly down to Charlotte, go to a Bobcats game and find Michael Jordan. I’d only have one quesiton for him before the secruity guards got to me, “Why did you have to hit “The Shot”?.
4.) I would fly across the pond and attend a West Ham-Milwall match just so I could sing “Forever Blowing Bubbles” with the biggest hooligans on the planet.
5.) I’d go very early to a Cleveland Indians game and while they were taking batting practice I’d find Travis Hafner, hand him a copy of “The Sciene of Hitting” and then tell him to get confident again.
6.) I’d arrange for my dad to have a high stakes black jack table all to himself so he never had to worry about the people around him playing the wrong way, messing up the shoot, and still managing to win.
7.) I’d make sure my brother got to meet Mark Price. I’d also take him and my father to see a UCLA basketball game so they could both shake John Wooden’s hand. I’d also make sure Bill Walton was never allowed to say, “throw it down big fella” again.
8.)I’d find a way for my mom to give Charlie Nagy a hug.
9.)I’d take batting practice at Wrigley Field, Fenway Park, and Old Yankee Stadium with Vlad, Griffey, and ManRam. I’d ask Vlad to swing out of his shoes one more time, watch The pretty swing in baseball history as Griffey wore his hat backwards, and see how many balls Manny could make leave the stadium.
10.) I’d go the Army/Navy game and thank everyone around me for keeping this country safe.
11.) I’d sit on my couch for 4 days straight just to watch every single basketball game in the 1st two rounds of March Madness so I didn’t miss a minute of the upsets, big shots, and Cinderella stories.
12.) And lastly, I’d hire the crew from True Hollywood Stories to make a documentary about our Turkey Bowl. It’d be titled “The Funniest Game Ever Played” and it’d be the #1 movie in America.
Now THAT is a year worth living.
