If you stayed for the entire game, why? My friends in the stands bailed early in the 3d quarter. When I met them after the game — they gave props to me for staying the entire time. Even though I was dry and warm in the press box.
By the time I met them in a Northside dive, it was late and I was just hoping they were ready to go back to crash. Nope. We stayed out until 2. I’m not built for that any longer. That realization that over the last few years, the number of times I’ve gotten up for something (job, travel, trip) around 2-3 am far, far exceed the number of times I’ve stayed up that late. Not sure when that flipped, but it has decisively.
Needless to say, I’ve been sleeping a bit since that night.
