Speaking of what motivates us…
There comes a time in time in a man’s life when he is motivated to do the unusual, something out of character and out of the ordinary. I speak of a time when he must drag his comrades (and by that, I mean his dad, cousin and brother) 1,600 kilometres to a far-off, forbidden land. To a land of terrorists and gun-slinging cowboys. To a place where to sit for three hours on a frozen bench for an exorbitant price is considered an honour.
That place, where football greats have clashed for the last century, is called Lambeau Field. And that is where I will be dragging, however reluctantly, my closest relatives on November 20th (admittedly, they don’t even cheer for Green Bay… yet.)
Sound foolish? Yes, I couldn’t agree more. As someone who balks at paying $50 for a Roughriders ticket when I could simply watch it on TV, it baffles even me. Driving for two days for a 3-hour game is not quite the same as a short jaunt from Laird to Regina. (Now that I’m a 20-minute walk away from Taylor Field, it’s even less magical.)
Call it an experience. Call it male bonding time. Call it a mild obsession of mine. I’m not sure why, but guys tend to be more prone to these fixations. I think it has to do with our inability to focus on more than one thing at a time. Our brains are limited to one subject, and a channel change is sometimes quite difficult. As in the olden days, when one had to go outside to crank the enormous satellite dish to get a different channel, so it can be with a man’s brain. And sometimes it’s too cold outside to bother.
Such will be our brains in frigid conditions at Lambeau Field. There will be only one focus. It will be football. There will be no cheerleaders to distract. (Green Bay is one of two NFL teams to not have cheerleaders, thereby keeping the game wholesome and pure.) Our eyes will be fixated on the field as Aaron Rodgers dissects the defence with pin-point precision to lead Green Bay where no Packers team has gone since 1962 – to 10-0.
So it will be on that fateful day (but hopefully not too fateful).
Let us hope for a win.
Who won?
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