And she said, yeah, that she would give them to me when she got her new ones. I mean, a lot of them you could see that there was tread missing, but it's not like you had ripped through the top of them.Īnd I'd asked her for them. And most of them were hardly worn out at all. And in our neighborhood, there is the practice of throwing your old sneakers up over the telephone wires when you're done with them. And I wanted her sneakers because I knew she was getting new ones. And she had really nice Beta Bullets, high tops, white. These are guys who normally spend over 50 hours a week on a slow week watching games and thinking about sports, who these days, like hungry men raiding an empty kitchen pantry for any scrap of food, have resorted to watching old college games that they've seen before and live Korean baseball in the middle of the night, and the German soccer league, Bundesliga. These two guys who write about college football, Jason Kirk and Spencer Hall, wrote this thing that I love about the lack of sports in our world today. Part of the thrill of the Michael Jordan documentary The Last Dance was it wasn't just sports, but a primetime Sunday night sports event that you could look forward to and you could watch, knowing other fans were watching and talk about, and share memes just like the world used to be. He's watched the 2018 Stanley Cup, the NBA Finals Game 7 from 2013, an old Yankees game from 1978, the Masters last year that Tiger Woods won, all that glory from back when life was normal and sports was part of it. One of the sports fans on our staff, Matt, was saying the other day that that is exactly what it's like today, watching the constant replays of old sports on television. And every morning, he wakes up and makes himself breakfast, and puts on videos of The Today Show from back before the Earth was destroyed just to make the morning seem normal. The only person left alive in New York is Will Smith, and he is not able to find traces of anyone else alive anywhere on Earth. There's a scene in the film I Am Legend where, OK, civilization is over.

The Sinful Seven by Jason Kirk