Two Sevens

The older we get, the less time we have for things. I don’t know how America watches a four hour anything, in person or on television, either way it’s too much. I mean four hours each for Football, Golf, Nascar you name it, seems like everything is watered down, lets get on with it already. Football should be like Hockey, three periods. Hockey should be like Basketball, two half's, Baseball should be 7 innings just like high school. It would be awesome, you wouldn’t half to suffer through the most boring part of the game, middle relief. Pro Basketball should be like College basketball and add five minutes a half and make it two 25’s. The stars you payed 100 bucks to see would be in the game longer. You also could eliminate like 7000 tattoos, the guys at the far end of the bench look like walking classified adds. You notice the worse the NBA player (with some small exceptions) the more the tattoos. Anyway Golf should be 14 holes, two sevens. I mean they hardly televise the first 9 holes anyway. I’d play more golf if it didn’t take up the better part of the weekend. I rarely watch Nascar but maybe I would if it was a hybrid round robin contest. Five guys at a time rip around the track from stop like a track meet, a couple times. Winner moves on until there’s a champion. I’d watch that. Soccer, I coached varsity soccer for years and it was nails on a chalk board annoyingly long. I say move the field in about a third and add another ball. Tennis sets could be shortened, it shouldn’t be an endurance contest, I want the shot maker to win not the sadist iron man. The tour De France is cool but lets face it, nobody in this country knows what the hell is going on, I wish somebody could fill me on how it works, it’s like a secret, time trials and points and different colored jersey’s, why is it so complicated? I say as soon as the first guy crosses the finish line, everybody else has to stop and make an x on the road and everybody starts from their x’s on the next day. That race is almost a month long, people get married and divorced in that amount of time around here. Oh yeah and Christmas should be in late February.