Showing posts with label sport. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sport. Show all posts
14.4.15
22.1.11
Scientific for the Older Folks
Speaking of tiddlywinks... As I may have mentioned, my father was, on top of everything else, a bit of a packrat. One of his "childish things" he hung onto was this board game, which he had gotten for his tenth Christmas. We played several times when in my turn I was ten and he still thought I could be taught to understand, if not love, football.
The gist of it is that you choose what play you're going to make, and then spin the spinner to see what yardage you achieve. Then you move the little football pin to the appropriate place on the "gridiron" and follow the usual football rules (gaining ten yards to achieve another "first down" etc. -- it's all coming back to me after 40 years) until the other team gets the ball.
If you have all afternoon and a good pair of bifocals, here are the instructions.
I never took to it (or the real thing) to the extent he did. I remember endless weekends oveerhearing as he listened in the other room to the gabbling radio sportscasters wetting themselves over some unbelieveable field goal or whatever. He took me to a college game once. I remember I liked (and understood) the hotdogs.
(For more nostalgia, visit Sepia Saturday.
The gist of it is that you choose what play you're going to make, and then spin the spinner to see what yardage you achieve. Then you move the little football pin to the appropriate place on the "gridiron" and follow the usual football rules (gaining ten yards to achieve another "first down" etc. -- it's all coming back to me after 40 years) until the other team gets the ball.
If you have all afternoon and a good pair of bifocals, here are the instructions.
I never took to it (or the real thing) to the extent he did. I remember endless weekends oveerhearing as he listened in the other room to the gabbling radio sportscasters wetting themselves over some unbelieveable field goal or whatever. He took me to a college game once. I remember I liked (and understood) the hotdogs.
(For more nostalgia, visit Sepia Saturday.
21.1.11
Three Winters
Winter 2010-2011
Winter 2007
Winter 2008
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1.1.11
Another World
A few shots captured on my recent trip to the Vacation Planet.
Inspired by photos like the following, taken with a high degree of "alienation."
Does the last one remind you a bit of this?
Inspired by photos like the following, taken with a high degree of "alienation."
Does the last one remind you a bit of this?
3.8.10
The Field
My friends Premium T. and Citizen K. invited me, of all people, to a night of pro baseball. A good time was had even though the Red Sox surprisingly lost to the Mariners. All in all the scene was rather Hopperesque, I thought. Click for full effect...
Wetting the Field
Diehard Fans
The Bullpen
The Bier Garten
Slugger
Nighthawks
Wetting the Field
Diehard Fans
The Bullpen
The Bier Garten
Slugger
Nighthawks
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