Honestly, mention ten names of famous male or female sports figures, and I am likely to ask what films they have been in recently. However, being that I so infrequently watch movies or TV these days, I might confuse the stars with sports figures. Others need to apprise me of who is who.
On the beach, I’m more likely to spend my time searching for beach glass than listening to a play-by-play broadcast. The sounds of sports just compete, unfavorably, with the roar of the ocean.
It wasn’t always so. My large gray cat, Clancy ( AKA the Grey Menace), was from Ottawa, Ontario. He took hockey very seriously – he was a Maple Leafs fan. We had a game we played called cat hockey in which he was the goalie. My objective was to shoot the little balls into the goal. He was well known for coming out of the goal, tossing down the gloves, and wanting to fight – elbows up! When we moved back to Boston, I began to watch the Bruins with my friends. But he thought Bobby Orr was a wuss.
Before I met my beautiful wife, I dated a few girls who were sports fans. None of them worked. The Gray Menace strongly disapproved of the girl who cheered for some second-rate team, and I never did understand golf. The girl who was into Rugby dumped me when she discovered I’d rather get a sundae than go to a Sunday Rugby match.
About the only sport I really took a shine to was bocce. Yup, tossing those little balls around. I was taught to play the game while working for the Smithsonian. During the Festival of American Folklife in 1988, they built a bocce court as part of the exhibit. When things got dull, we’d all drift over to the bocce court and play some mean bocce.
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Haha…elbows up! Go Leafs go!
He was a true Canadian cat, Found him in an alley way while I was living in an apartment on Lyons Street. And yes He’d sit in the lap and watch hockey…unfortuanaltey he’d get a bit too excited when a fight broke out and his claws came out.
He sounds like a true Canadian hockey fan!
He was.
Did Clancy like Bocce? It seems like it might be a cat thing, but I know he had refined and very special tastes…