The Sports Guy

     This week marks the week of Valentine’s Day where friends, family, and lovers express their appreciation for each other by sending cards, candy, or flowers to each another. Legend has it that Valentine’s Day originated as a commemoration of a  Christian martyr named Valentine.
     In the city of Rome, an Emperor named “Claudius the Cruel” drafted citizens to the Roman army. Many of the Romans refused to go and wanted to stay with their families or their sweethearts. In order to maintain a strong militia, the emperor banned all marriages and engagements.
     A Roman priest named Valentine heard of the emperor’s command and was upset by the order. Valentine secretly began uniting young couples in marriage. Claudius found out what Valentine was doing and ordered that he be put into jail. Valentine enventually died in jail and was buried in the church of St. Praxedes on February 14.
     While that is a nice story that is not thereal reason we celebrate Valentine’s Day. Valentine’s Day is designed to rejuvenate a relationship’s romance after football season and before basketball and baseball seasons.
     Football season swings into full gear in October and lasts until February.  Basketball season is in session now, but the real intensity does not occur for another couple of weeks with the beginning of “March Madness.” After basketball season, the “boys of summer are back” as baseball season returns. Baseball season lasts all summer long and does not finish until the end of October, just as football season begins.
     There is only one period in this cycle for rest. Can you guess when it is? It is the time directly following the Super Bowl until the opening of the NCAA Basketball Tournament. This period is roughly from the first week of February to the third week in March. The date of February 14 falls in this time period.
     Valentine’s Day is located in the midst of this period of few sports for men to give recognition to their number one fan, their sugar mama. Men, put down the remote and show your appreciation for your lady for putting up with  sports by buying her flowers and taking her out to dinner.

Posted by Colonnade Archives on Feb 16 2007. Filed under Sports. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry