Never Get Your Hopes Up

In a previous post I mentioned that I was going to have the opportunity to actually watch a Cowboys game. I was pretty psyched up, we even splurged and bought ice cream. Around 8 I went next door and we turned on the tv only to find out that ESPN wasn't working...every other channel (even the one that only shows a picture of Mecca with audio of some guy speaking in Arabic 24/7) was working just fine, but ESPN was just a blue checkered screen. So they started messing with it, started typing in codes trying to figure out what the problem was. 15 minutes later, still no ESPN. At this point, I started to prepare myself for the reality that I actually might not get to watch this game. I even started reprimanding myself....why did I let myself get so excited about something when I know that in the Sandbox, nothing ever works?!?! You should never get your hopes up! And then, PTL, they got it to work. We missed the 1st quarter, which in a pre-season game is sometimes the only one worth watching, but still, we got in about 2 hours of good 'ole American football and it was all that I'd hoped it would be and more!

Come to find out, every week we'll have 3 opportunites, count them, 3, to watch the Monday night game. We can watch it on Tuesday (our time) either live at 3 am, at 11 am, or at 8 pm. As appealing as it is to get up at 3 am, I'm fairly certain that in our minds Monday night football has now been replaced with Tuesday night football and I know what I will be doing every Tuesday night until December! Now...these ESPN announcers...well, they're no Troy Aikman, but, when it's all you got it's all you got, and I am thankful for ESPN satellite!!!