{"id":44496,"date":"2012-06-23T20:24:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T04:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=44496"},"modified":"2012-06-23T20:24:06","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T04:24:06","slug":"i-almost-skipped-my-sisters-wedding-for-the-super-bowl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=44496","title":{"rendered":"I Almost Skipped My Sister’s Wedding For The Super Bowl"},"content":{"rendered":"

In January 1982, I almost decided to skip a trip home to Australia for two weeks to avoid missing the Super Bowl<\/a>, even though my favorite team, the Dallas Cowboys, was not playing, and I had no emotional attachment to either of the teams in the contest.<\/p>\n

I eventually came to my senses and made the trip. It was a good thing I did because in the newsstands on the way there, there, and on the way back, I took up a vigorous perusal — for the first time — of men’s magazines like Playboy and Penthouse. <\/p>\n

I was 15. <\/p>\n

I arrived in Australia after the game had concluded. I think my Uncle Val told me who won and I got to see highlights on the news that night.<\/p>\n

I’m just thinking about how I almost chose to skip my sister’s wedding to watch a football game and it makes me question the role spectator sports has played in my life. For me, I think, it is a narcotic. It is a way I distract myself from the loneliness of my existence. I have an intimacy disorder and I try to numb the pain through sex, porn, sports, gambling, etc.<\/p>\n

When I can lose myself watching some event on TV, I can forget about my discouragement with my own life for a few hours.<\/p>\n

I don’t think happy people, generally, are the most devoted sports fans.<\/p>\n

Through therapy and 12-step work and Judaism and the like, I’m starting to stare some of my addictions in the face and to look back on my life with greater clarity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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