[Hank 91]

3. My son's high school sports announcer who likes to make sure people know ongoing game scores even in the really rare occasions that they have the ability to record such a game.
4. My father-in-law, Stanford class of '53, who won't give me the score but will tell me whether or not I'll like the result.

These two are the worst. Two years ago when the L.A. Kings were on their first Stanley Cup run, our school had its annual awards night scheduled on the night the Kings won Game 6 to clinch the Cup. At one point one of the teachers went up to present his award, and casually said, "For those who are interested, the Kings are up 1-0!" Obviously, those who were interested, did NOT want to know. One father sitting in the front row actually tried to stop him, calling out "Nooooo!" midway through the announcement. When he heard the score he slumped in his seat in defeat. The best part? The SAME teacher did the SAME thing the next year.

As for me, I was able to successfully avoid the score last Friday night. I did make the mistake of watching the first quarter live before leaving to the high school football game, probably the worst place to stop, so I spent the next three hours worrying about the game, the season... Thankfully it all worked out.

[Hank 91]

3. My son's high school sports announcer who likes to make sure people know ongoing game scores even in the really rare occasions that they have the ability to record such a game.
4. My father-in-law, Stanford class of '53, who won't give me the score but will tell me whether or not I'll like the result.

These two are the worst. Two years ago when the L.A. Kings were on their first Stanley Cup run, our school had its annual awards night scheduled on the night the Kings won Game 6 to clinch the Cup. At one point one of the teachers went up to present his award, and casually said, "For those who are interested, the Kings are up 1-0!" Obviously, those who were interested, did NOT want to know. One father sitting in the front row actually tried to stop him, calling out "Nooooo!" midway through the announcement. When he heard the score he slumped in his seat in defeat. The best part? The SAME teacher did the SAME thing the next year.

As for me, I was able to successfully avoid the score last Friday night. I did make the mistake of watching the first quarter live before leaving to the high school football game, probably the worst place to stop, so I spent the next three hours worrying about the game, the season... Thankfully it all worked out.

[bbm233]

I managed to find out the score of the 1997 Sun Bowl while I was in Melbourne, Australia looking at the local paper.  I never once thought they would carry American Football.  I saw the score (35-0), and I thought it must have been a type-o.  I never did get to see Willingham dismantle little Nickie Saban's MSU team.  And who knew that Saban would go on to become one of the most successful coaches ever.

BC

I lived in Melbourne a couple years before you ('92-'95). When I first got there, our primary method of keeping up with sports was via one news stand that imported a few copies of the US version of USA today (not the international version). We ran a fantasy football league down there and would get together over lunch on Wednesday to go over the NFL box scores and manually allocate points. Then we would do it again on Thursday because of the Monday night game. No injury reports were available before your picks had to be in on Friday at 5pm AST (which is really Thursday in the US). The year I was champion with Brett Favre (first year as GB starter) and Louis Lipps (double duty as receiver and returner) scoring lots of points for me. Remarkably, I picked both as backups to other players I don't even remember.

[bbm233]

I managed to find out the score of the 1997 Sun Bowl while I was in Melbourne, Australia looking at the local paper.  I never once thought they would carry American Football.  I saw the score (35-0), and I thought it must have been a type-o.  I never did get to see Willingham dismantle little Nickie Saban's MSU team.  And who knew that Saban would go on to become one of the most successful coaches ever.

BC

I lived in Melbourne a couple years before you ('92-'95). When I first got there, our primary method of keeping up with sports was via one news stand that imported a few copies of the US version of USA today (not the international version). We ran a fantasy football league down there and would get together over lunch on Wednesday to go over the NFL box scores and manually allocate points. Then we would do it again on Thursday because of the Monday night game. No injury reports were available before your picks had to be in on Friday at 5pm AST (which is really Thursday in the US). The year I was champion with Brett Favre (first year as GB starter) and Louis Lipps (double duty as receiver and returner) scoring lots of points for me. Remarkably, I picked both as backups to other players I don't even remember.

[BostonCard]

I managed to find out the score of the 1997 Sun Bowl while I was in Melbourne, Australia looking at the local paper.  I never once thought they would carry American Football.  I saw the score (35-0), and I thought it must have been a type-o.  I never did get to see Willingham dismantle little Nickie Saban's MSU team.  And who knew that Saban would go on to become one of the most successful coaches ever.

BC

I lived in Melbourne a couple years before you ('92-'95). When I first got there, our primary method of keeping up with sports was via one news stand that imported a few copies of the US version of USA today (not the international version). We ran a fantasy football league down there and would get together over lunch on Wednesday to go over the NFL box scores and manually allocate points. Then we would do it again on Thursday because of the Monday night game. No injury reports were available before your picks had to be in on Friday at 5pm AST (which is really Thursday in the US). The year I was champion with Brett Favre (first year as GB starter) and Louis Lipps (double duty as receiver and returner) scoring lots of points for me. Remarkably, I picked both as backups to other players I don't even remember.

Actually, I never lived in Melbourne.  I was visiting my parents, who moved to Black Rock, south of the Yarra, while I was at Stanford.

BC

[BostonCard]

I managed to find out the score of the 1997 Sun Bowl while I was in Melbourne, Australia looking at the local paper.  I never once thought they would carry American Football.  I saw the score (35-0), and I thought it must have been a type-o.  I never did get to see Willingham dismantle little Nickie Saban's MSU team.  And who knew that Saban would go on to become one of the most successful coaches ever.

BC

I lived in Melbourne a couple years before you ('92-'95). When I first got there, our primary method of keeping up with sports was via one news stand that imported a few copies of the US version of USA today (not the international version). We ran a fantasy football league down there and would get together over lunch on Wednesday to go over the NFL box scores and manually allocate points. Then we would do it again on Thursday because of the Monday night game. No injury reports were available before your picks had to be in on Friday at 5pm AST (which is really Thursday in the US). The year I was champion with Brett Favre (first year as GB starter) and Louis Lipps (double duty as receiver and returner) scoring lots of points for me. Remarkably, I picked both as backups to other players I don't even remember.

Actually, I never lived in Melbourne.  I was visiting my parents, who moved to Black Rock, south of the Yarra, while I was at Stanford.

BC