Ah, I remember the days when I didn't put anything evil into my body, they were.........ok. Now I am pretty sure that in my first post that I said I would probably contradict myself. Here goes: football is not just an excuse to drink. There are many, many people who really follow football passionately and know an absurd amount about it, more than I ever care to know. The connection between drinking and football is not that football is just a universal excuse to drink, it is more that people go drinking and then decide they care about football. It is similar to a person buying a yankees hat and THEN claiming that they are a yankees fan. The love of the game (or whatever) is supposed to come first. Either way, I like my love of sport to pervade my life, not simply be an easy way to spend a sunday.
As for St. Patty's day, I don't really have much to say about it, other than I find it wild to hear Zach call it his favorite holiday, for I have never heard him say this before. You said in a previous post that you need no reason or excuse to go and get blitzed, so who cares about St. Patty's day. To me it simply means that I will get yelled at for not wearing green, everywhere will be too crowded, cabs will be harder to find, but the killer one is that I am not really allowed to not drink (follow the negatives). If on St. Patty's day I just don't feel like drinking, or a know I have a cold coming on, or whatever, I have little choice but to suck it up. Furthermore, I can't have one or two, then I look like even more of an asshole than if I had stayed home (like going to a baseball game with someone you half-forced to go with you, only to discover that they brought a book to read). A similarity between St. Patty's and Football. I can't do anything but drink on St. Patty's day, and I can't do anything on Sunday but watch football. Now of course I am not actually forced to do either of those things, yet I am culturally inclined to parktake in both with fervor. Fuck that.
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