Sports aren’t life and death, but they sure sound like it.
Basketball has live-ball turnovers. Baseball had the dead ball era. Hockey features the one-timer and sudden-death overtime (bet you thought I was going penalty kill). In football, quarterbacks initiate audibles by yelling “kill, kill, kill.” It’s almost like the sporting universe is trying to make a point about the evanescence of existence. We’re all going to face the ultimate judgment call from the ultimate sky judge.
That’s why I believe in a Sports Bucket List: achievements/occurrences, events, and venues a fan wants to experience before you become an actual ghost runner.
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