Why I Stopped Watching Football and Became a Sports Monk
My tale from inside the cloisters
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8 min readFeb 26, 2024
I watched the Ice Bowl on December 31, 1967, between the Green Bay Packers and the Dallas Cowboys.
Every snap, every down, every tackle as the players rose ever more slowly throughout the game — the freezing temperatures doing to their limbs what a freezer does to a pork chop.