September 12, 2007
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The Daily News
1
Somebody told me that Alex Smith stopped in at Mission Ale House last
night for the sole purpose of picking up chicks, but collapsed when
someone told him that to do that required being able to make a forward
pass.2 M’ bad.
3 I think the Niners should have put the hippy guy with the banjo in
at the end of the game. At least he could play. Ah, Alex did okay at
the very end. Still…4 The best part about the Niners this weekend is they weren’t the Raiders.
5 Ah, and I have to give it to their defense.
6 So I meant nothing by it.
7 No offense.
8 Moving on: Ah,
football. It’s definitely Fall. I was pretty much born a Niner fan. My
dad has had season tix since there were actual REAL 49ers here, like
back in the 1800′s and stuff.
9 Just kidding.
10
Truly he did and when I was just a little guy he used to take me up to
Kezar stadium where I would sit with a bunch of kids in the end zone.11
In those days (it wasn’t REALLY the 1800′s folks!) you could go down on
the field after the game and slap those big lugs on the shoulder pads,
and you could smell the mud and grass all around you. If the Niners
would get a bad call late in the game you could be absolutely certain
that it would rain beer cans, most unopened.12 What you didn’t want was to be standing anywhere near a referee.
13 The beer of choice back then was this horrible tasting stuff called Pabst Blue Ribbon.
14 Just some nasty stuff.
15
But that was back-in-the-day. Nobody drinks it now. I don’t THINK
anyone does. Ah, who cares? It’s all about the good ol’ days, the early
days of being a kid and loving your team.
16 So…Kezar, Stanyon Street, all of it. You used to pay people to park in their garages.
17 Football.
18 I imagine if you never got into football you’d think it was the most barbaric, idiotic thing ever dropped on mankind.
19 And you’d be right.
20 And as a kid, I loved it, every bit of it.
21 Great way to spend a Sunday, or even a Monday night.
22
Somehow this past Monday night, the Niners won the game. After
an entire season of Lucy pulling the football out from under Charlie
Brown, he finally brushed himself off and wound up having a peanut
butter and jelly sandwich with the Little Red- Haired girl.23 Peanuts and football analogy.
24 Today is Wednesday.
25 I sort of made Tuesday disappear for myself yesterday.
26
But I figured, “Since it’s Tuesday, why not do a bit about football?
The day doesn’t count anyway.” Well, I actually wrote this on Monday
night but it seemed not quite right to put out there yesterday.27
So now you know. It feels fine to put out there on a Wednesday. So this
DN is just about football, maybe, and being a kid in the Fall.28 Football.
29 It’s back, and so is the Fall. And maybe even remembering what it’s like to be a carefree kid on a blustery autumn day.
30 Have a great day everybody.
32 Be a kid, just for today.
33 Peace.
~H~
