What do you do on Super Bowl Sunday? Do you watch the game? Do you use it as an opportunity for an adventure knowing most people will be at game watching the game?
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| Brown Pelican -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Regional Shoreline, Oakland, CA |
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| Sora |
I've done both. Sometimes Jim hosts Super Bowl parties and I go over to his house to watch the game. I'm more likely to do that if a local team is involved. We don't have cable at home but we have an HD antennae, so I can watch the World Series, the NBA Finals, major golf tournaments and a number of NFL games. That's about all there is for sports on regular television anymore. I'm not all that into watching sports anyway. I like listening to sports on the radio.
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| Willet & Marbled Godwit -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Regional Shoreline, Oakland, CA |
One of the great things about summer road trips is finding baseball broadcasts while driving. I'm a Giants fan, so I'll listen to their games whenever possible. Padres. Dodgers. Angels. Diamondbacks. Rockies. Mariners. I've listened to all of their broadcasts. Hanging out at the campsite drinking a beer with the game on while cooking up a little dinner, tough to beat that scenario.
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| AT&T Ballpark, San Francisco, CA |
OK, I'm way off topic.
Sunday was Super Bowl Sunday. The San Francisco Forty-Niners hosted the Super Bowl down in Santa Clara. I don't know why they aren't called the Santa Clara Forty-Niners now, their stadium is roughly forty miles from San Francisco. Whatever. I headed over to the City to watch the game at a party at my friend's house over there. I left early thinking the traffic might be bad. It wasn't. No problem, that gave me a chance to take some pictures.
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| Formerly Simpson Bible College, San Francisco, CA |
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| Simpson Back in the Day |
I got together with my wife at Simpson Bible College in San Francisco in the mid-eighties. That's where I met my friend Jim, also. It was a small college with just over two hundred students. I stopped by for a few pictures. I'm not at all into religion anymore (nor is my wife or Jim), but this place is still kind of special. The entire school and the dorms were in this one building. It would not be an exaggeration to say this was a tight little community. The current occupants of the building (the college moved to Redding in the late eighties) have paved over every square inch of the place, but it used to be an attractive campus. Oh well. It was still fun to see the old building.
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| Ocean Beach, San Francisco, CA |
I headed out to Ocean Beach before making my way to the Super Bowl party. We've had wonderful winter weather lately, but that was nowhere in sight on Sunday. There wasn't a cloud in the sky. I hate blue skies when taking pictures. Nothing to be done about it, though. The Great Highway runs along Ocean Beach and some of it has crumbled into the sea in the last couple of decades. The dunes I took this picture from extended out much farther toward the ocean thirty years ago,
Man, I'm old.
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| Mark's Back Yard, San Francisco, CA |
Anyway, the Super Bowl party was fun. I didn't watch much of the game. It was a fun day, all in all.
Not into sports so didn't pay any attention to the game. With continued erosion on the coast someday there won't be any place for Hwy1. Sounds like you had a good day.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I had a good day. It's amazing to me that I've been alive long enough to actually have witnessed geological change in my lifetime. When I was in college my wife and I and our friends used to go to the dunes near where that beach picture was taken for bonfires. Now those dunes have been almost completely washed to see. I felt so old walking on that washed-out highway.
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