My pigskin cellphone cover
should have told me football games have quarters not periods cause
here out in the bush I’m
always in a hurry cause my
fingers are freezing and the
dam cellphone always lies to me about the remaining
battery power. My knife always falls into the snow
and by the time I find it the phones dead.

Get well soon for your
next beer which I assume
is off the menu fo a while.
Maybe a friend has a hot tub to slide into to help
with the pain and no one
has to sell everything
and move to Wounded
Knee North Dakota ha ha

Hi.

The local football fix here
is in Hamilton forty miles
down the road McMaster University
go Mac go

or the TigerCats big boys
blood and guts CFL
Steel town football in Hamilton
don’t have the money
for that one right now

so: YouTube Mcmaster/Ottawa
September 2019
gives you the general idea
go Mac go all young guys
not corrupted by money
and mortgages yet.
Highlights 5 minutes.

I can only attend these events in the pouring rain.

Cancelled last year.

This year Oct 31
also in the pouring rain and
covid protocols:
no kids meet and greet with the players
on the field post game,
no touchdown fireworks
fizzling off the nearby
university residence rooftops.

Halftime show is freezing rain
and snowflakes so
everyone under the stadium steps then
drinking coffee jerky.

After halftime the free Tshirt toss
is something from
“The Fruit Fairy Yogurt Bar”
across the street how can a
yogurt bar have a happy hour
don’t know but no
social distancing people dive
all over it as tshirts flung into the crowd.

Nike and Sheraton promo ads all around the stadium
but the corporate support
apparently
doesn’t extend to Tshirts anyone would want to wear.

If your mask falls off and
into a puddle while talking
to the police officer all okay
all puddles filled with
masks
by third period and people
yelling
“Break the window,
Break the windows etc etc

Endzone goalposts closest to campus
now even closer by forty feet
as new office building under
construction goes up.

No broken windows but two
missing footballs have gone
through openings where
windows have yet to be installed
after different field goal attempts.

McMaster University/University of Guelph
final score 48 to 42 or similar
most of which is about 18 field goals combined.

For a lot of these boys this is their last football game. They will have to
say goodbye to the comradery and
all the rest of it, something good and true
and you can only have it when you’re young,
and not all guys get to have it.

They know it, and win or loose after the
game remain bowed in a huddle for
almost ten minutes, I timed it.

For these reasons at the last game coaches
release a new cohort of players for each play
so guys can play.

Graduating players are honoured pregame
by walking onto the field to “Land of Hope And Glory” playing over the stadium
loudspeakers, one guy limping in a
full leg cast. The crowd went quiet.

They all seem to have
Sociology degrees
so I don’t know what they are supposed to
do with them in the abyss of moneymaking that life will expect of them.

King Edward VII went to Edward Elgar and said
I really like the tune,
would it be possible to
come up with some words for it?
There’s an American version of
Land of Hope and Glory,
don’t know what it is.

Good news, bad news:

Bad news: The US Airforce wants
you to go back to
Chatsworth High and complete
Grade 12 the regular way
no matter how much limping
you have to do, or no AirForce pension.

Friday Night Lights
is a great movie but
American dads put a lot
of pressure on their sons
and dont tell them everything they might have to know about football
starting with the quarterback doesnt get
sacked a lot and usually
finishes his high school
without torn anything.
But Im not being fair
and sorry you didnt
get to complete High
School football

The good news: September 3rd
was my birthday, though its. probably
not much help at this point
and I accept that.

I am sorry you are having such a difficult time.

I’m no sports ability person,
going to the football games
clears my head and makes
me feel younger.
The stands are full of healthy
twenty something kick as guys
who know their stuff
so the McMaster Football
program can survive without
my support.

I can probably get away with it
for a few more seasons.
I wear a hoody.
Maybe football can come back
into your life in some way.

You joined the Air Force
and fought to keep
the comradery with a bum knee
and succeeded in spades
and that’s great.
Hope that doesnt
sound to
patronizing

The CFL football is a little bit bigger
than the American one and I can
send you a new one later if you’re
desperate surely there must be someone to throw it too when you’re feeling better.

In the meantime, shit buddy,
is there no one in La La Land who
will stand up to you:
some two foot tall buck teeth
thoroughbred horse jockey
who would heap contumely
on you and your motorcycle
if they saw it pull up in
the parking lot at the racetrack?

How much stuff do you want on your
plate? Take it off and leave it off.
Do you have to ride in the Rose Parade four weeks from now
or resume Kung Fu Chow Mein
at the gym in two weeks?

Most Canadian motorcycles stay in the garage four months all winter
because black ice extends almost
into the living room during
that time.

Perverts Row Sturgis is on no one’s bucket list; if you
want perverts
I’ll take pictures of the people across
the street and email that.

There must be thousands
of perverts in Huntington Beach
(don’t know) who would be willing
to stand in a row for you for a photo op if you just put some effort into it. Seduce them with your
legal charms.

Do what the doctors tell you and get well soon and
keep us up to speed.
I’m glad you didn’t kick the bucket or else my previous obnoxious email
would just be lying around at Biker Law Blog with no one to post it.

PBS Blu Ray Jackie
Robinson is a good two nights on the sofa
with your main squeeze,
order that. No obsessive
behavior is the hidden lecture; the best pars in these PBS documentaries are still the opening credits
where the various charitable trusts are acknowledged in front of
a seatef Abraham Lincoln, and the contributions fro

“Viewers Like You”,

Thank you

Happy New Year

Go Mac Go