Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about growing up as sports fans.
Show notes:
- Recorded on the way to Tree House Brewing
- Phil: Grew up watching sports with his dad, playing sports with his brothers
- Watched a lot of tennis in the late '70s/early /80s
- Both read the sports page of the local paper
- Collecting sports cards was a big hobby
- Jay: Began watching hockey with dad, quickly became obsessed
- Played street hockey with the neighborhood kids
- Phil: We played outside with no supervision all day
- Now we don't let our kids go anywhere on their own
- Imagining you're a pro athlete
- Memories of church league hoops
- Jay: We played "foot hockey" (aka soccer with a tennis ball) every day at recess
- Street hockey got serious, playing teams from across town
- No fun playing sports against your boss
- Jay: Parents wouldn't let me play organized youth hockey
- Didn't play sports the first two years of high school because of multiple moves
- Good way to make friends
- Jay: Played a lot of sports after college
- Played soccer, hockey, golf, tennis
- It's no fun when people start acting like jerks
- Started getting involved with coaching youth sports when kids started playing
- Some parents take their kids' sports way too seriously
- Let your kids enjoy themselves
- Sports fans can be really dumb
- Going to games as a kid
- Baseball is a major sport, but it's getting tough to watch a whole game on TV
- The kids love the e-sports
- To be continued
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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.
