A Guy and His Sports

My husband, Bill, has always enjoyed sports.  He participates in sports, watches sports on TV, and when he can, he goes to sporting events.

He's played sports almost all his life.  And that doesn't count the times he wrestled with and chased his three older sisters!  He was on the track team during junior high school and during his sophomore and junior years, lettering in his junior year.  He was on the wrestling team during his sophomore year.  He played football during his three years of high school, lettering in his junior and senior years.  He played guard and fullback, the sports writer in the local newspaper called him a tank.  "A young tank named Bill B----- impressed everyone with his bulldozing through the Wellington line."

When we were first married, he played golf and baseball and bowled.  Over the years, he has played racquetball, softball, volleyball, and basketball.  We have always gone to watch him play in tournaments and leagues.  The whole family walked on volksmarches* in Germany.  He has jogged and ran foot races.  In 1986 he ran (and walked) the Cowtown marathon in Fort Worth.  When we lived in Hawaii, our family played on church volleyball, basketball, and softball leagues.  That was fun for all of us.  He has gone to the NASCAR race every year at the Texas Motor Speedway just north of Fort Worth since it opened in 1999.  He's always watched sports on TV, like bowling, golf, football, NASCAR racing, and boxing.  Now he sometimes watches the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship)** on Spike TV.  Our daughter and son-in-law have made him a University of Texas football fan.  He HAS to watch all the games on TV.  (I guess I'm a hanger-on.)

* Volksmarches are non-competitive 6-mile (10-kilometer) walks that are open to the public to come and enjoy.  Trails are marked and/or mapped, with checkpoints and refreshments along the way.  Volksmarching got its name from its origins in Europe.  Today there are thousands of volkssport clubs around the world, allied in the International Volkssport Federation.

** The UFC is a mixed martial arts sports association, formed in January 2001.  Mixed martial arts is an intense and evolving combat sport in which competitors use interdisciplinary forms of fighting that include jiu-jitsu, judo, karate, boxing, kickboxing, wrestling, and others to their strategic and tactical advantage in a supervised match.

Below are a photo of the sports guy taken a couple of years ago when he was on the golf course.