I really love college football. I really love opera (I know it’s not a common combination, but I when I was in high school, I lettered in 3 sports and played a first chair in the university orchestra my teacher was on the faculty of). I really learned to love sports and music.
For fifty years, I’ve had season tickets for college football (first the Cats, now Cal). Over the same period, I have held subscriptions to ether Lyric or SF Opera.
A few years ago, SF Opera stage the Ring Cycle. I had to admit to myself that when the date came, I dreaded having to go see it. I knew my legs would cramp up, my mind would wander, and I would have to fight off sleep over long stretches. I had seen this show before, and I was getting too old to get the enthusiasm up you need to appreciate something that long. At that time, while I realized my love of opera had limits, I did not think my love of college football had them.
Today, the Cats’ game starts in an hour, as they take their 9 game losing streak, stagnant offense and porous defense onto the field for humiliation by Purdue. As soon as it is over, I will pack myself up, go to Berkeley to watch Cal, with a 6 game losing streak, take on Stanford, also 3-7. It will be a long day. I guess my love of college football has limits, too!
Go Cats. Dispel my torpor and dread.
For fifty years, I’ve had season tickets for college football (first the Cats, now Cal). Over the same period, I have held subscriptions to ether Lyric or SF Opera.
A few years ago, SF Opera stage the Ring Cycle. I had to admit to myself that when the date came, I dreaded having to go see it. I knew my legs would cramp up, my mind would wander, and I would have to fight off sleep over long stretches. I had seen this show before, and I was getting too old to get the enthusiasm up you need to appreciate something that long. At that time, while I realized my love of opera had limits, I did not think my love of college football had them.
Today, the Cats’ game starts in an hour, as they take their 9 game losing streak, stagnant offense and porous defense onto the field for humiliation by Purdue. As soon as it is over, I will pack myself up, go to Berkeley to watch Cal, with a 6 game losing streak, take on Stanford, also 3-7. It will be a long day. I guess my love of college football has limits, too!
Go Cats. Dispel my torpor and dread.
