As I watched NFL playoff games yesterday, I was rooting for the underdog Dallas Cowboys. It was a thrilling game, one of the best in NFL history, and as I watched, matching my understanding of athletic performance with play by play analysis from the experts, I realized that one of the reasons I love watching football is because of I used to watch sports on television with my father and grandfather.<\/p>\n
My dad died on a Tuesday in November of 1993 and we watched NFL football, specifically a Cowboys game, the Sunday before he died. \u00a0And the Sunday before that.<\/p>\n
As a little girl, I remember sitting in my grandfather’s lap after my evening bath, with him drying my wet hair, while watching boxing.<\/p>\n
The thing is, while watching the Cowboys game yesterday I realized I couldn’t remember if Daddy rooted for<\/em> or against<\/em> America’s Team. \u00a0He’s been gone so long that I can’t remember his Cowboy preference and I’m certain that I’ve lost track of countless other details that made Daddy Daddy.<\/p>\n But that doesn’t really matter. \u00a0All that DOES matter is a little bit of Daddy and Poppa are still mixed up inside my heart and\u00a0in my head.<\/p>\n I think this is what smart people mean when they teach us that all that matter is love.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I watched NFL playoff games yesterday, I was rooting for the underdog Dallas Cowboys. It was a thrilling game, one of the best in NFL history, and as I watched, matching my understanding of athletic performance with play by play analysis from the experts, I realized that one of the reasons I love watching […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me","category-on-my-mind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rebeccaleone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rebeccaleone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rebeccaleone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rebeccaleone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rebeccaleone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rebeccaleone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"http:\/\/rebeccaleone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rebeccaleone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rebeccaleone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rebeccaleone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}