Frazz by Jef Mallett for October 29, 2023

And everybody else was wondering why he cheered during the first injury.

Kid has his eye on the ball. Games go on for months. Fall colors fade too fast.

Love this kid.

Love the background! The colors here have passed, sadly..

Kid sounds a lot like me.

That would be me!

When I moved my father, who had dementia, from Illinois to California, one of the things he really wanted to do was see Dodger Stadium. Not see a game- he didn’t have the attention span to sit through one inning, and he didn’t like the Dodgers anyway, but just see the stadium. So I took him to see the empty stadium. He loved it.

HA! This kid is going places!

I totally identify with this kid! What a great way to leaf peep!

Frazz, do not disabuse the boy, he’s one of the few with the right idea about the use of college stadiums…

And he found stationary colors interesting enough to keep him occupied for the length of a game?

I’m with this nameless kid; I always had to climb up to the highest point available, too. Probably why I learned to fly at twelve.

I played tackle football as a kid until I was physically outclassed by the early-puberty boys. What I see on TV these days can only charitably be called a “sport”, differing from car racing only in the amount of insulation necessary to prevent serious injury to the participants. The only time I have ever been in a fist-fight was as a 10-year-old at a local college football game. Some adolescent bully demanded my jacket, and I refused to give it to him. I got a busted lip and bled all over it (and some innocent attendee’s white car) but my mom got the blood out of the jacket, and I learned several valuable lessons.

So no, I’m not into a “sport” whose primary theme is two weapon-less gangs pummeling each other for hours. These days, it not even a half-way decent metaphor (much less disincentive) for war.

Priorities are in order.

That kid is me when I was younger. I was never interested in football, more interested in fall colors.

The boy didn’t notice all the men in funny shirts, trampling back and forth across a cattle field?

I used to watch Canadian football. Just different enough to be interesting.

Aussie rules football on the other hand…

Spend money on a ticket and only look at something you can see for free.

That kid is me! :)