I swear, at the end of every weekend during the fall, I begin to suspect that major sports programs, especially football and baseball, were actually invented to prosper the chips and dips industry of America.
I exaggerate, of course. Although I’ve heard various pundits suggest seriously that some of our “national holidays” here in America (i.e., Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day, and such) were created mostly to benefit the greeting card industry. But, of course, football, baseball, hockey, basketball — they weren’t really invented to serve up chips and dips. I must admit, though, that a busy college football and NFL football weekend makes me wish we had some sort of dip machine at our house.
We are big fans (think KC Chiefs and Mizzou football; St. Louis Cardinals baseball) at our house. Sadly, our Chiefs haven’t done well in recent years, and our Cardinals fell out of the MLB playoff picture immediately — hardly allowing a loyal fan time to crack open a bag of chips. I guess the reality of the matter is, we are “big” fans, physically broader than we ought to be for our health’s sake.
Maybe it’s the chips and dips?
To all you football and baseball fans out there, I send greetings and best wishes for your favorite teams as the World Series and BCS games draw near. As for my fellow Chiefs fans — one of these weekends, we WILL win another game. Grrrrrr.