No Longer Watching Football while Stacking Apples

As a long-time 49ers fan, the 49ers/Saints game was incredible, especially since I’ve barely watched the 49ers these past five seasons - not by choice, mind you.  

Prior to this season, it was really hard for me to follow football. I worked at a grocery store for more than five years, which meant spending every Sunday afternoon in the produce department. Needless to say, I almost never got to watch football games from beginning to end. I would ask customers shuffling into the produce department during halftime if they knew who was winning the 49ers’ game. Some customers would even take pity on me and recount exciting plays or dramatic finishes. Tired of relying on secondhand accounts, I would go to great lengths to see the real thing. Sometimes I would strategically park my cart at the apple pyramid and act like I was adding Granny Smiths in order to catch brief glimpses of the TV hanging over the store’s Wells Fargo. But my produce manager would invariably give me a “WTF look” within ten minutes.

So it was hard keeping up with pigskin. That is until I quit Vons last spring. My Sundays free, I’ve watched every 49ers game that’s aired this season. Christ I can’t tell you how good that feels. It reminds me of life as a young man, glued to the TV every Sunday -amazed by every Young to Rice completion. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that the 49ers are back to being good this year. All I can say is that it’s great to have Sundays back.

And don’t get me started on Alex Smith. Definitely one of the greatest comeback stories of all time. My brother-in-law loves to hate on him, so I sent him the following message after Alex engineered that game-winning drive: “If you don’t profess your love for Alex Smith right now I will fy to Salt Lake and fight you.”