ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL...AND LUCINDA WILLIAMS?

Does my image of watching football on Sunday's match yours? Let's see......

-10 guys in a living room all with Packer/Steeler/Giants/Cowboys jerseys
-All guys are overweight
-Beer and artery clogging food as far as the eye could see
-Tailgates at 10am in the parking lot of your team's stadium
-High fiving when your team makes a great play
-Bratwursts, sausages, big strong burly guys with their last name on the back of their favorite team's jersey (IE a Giants jersey with 56 and my last name on the back)
-Getting pumped for a bone crunching bloodbath....YEAH BABY YEA BABY YEEEEEEEA!

OK, did I hit at least some similarities as to what your Football Sunday looks like? Doesn't matter because I left one out. My image of football is forever changed. I now add the immortal LUCINDA WILLIAMS to my stereotypical image of football. The country/pop/adult contemporary artist is now my pump up music before a Giants game. You've think I've gone crazy? Well, let me tell you....

I was in line behind someone who looked like The Rock waiting to get my Chicken Cheese Steak (not really a steak because it's chicken), and I noticed he was wearing one of those black concert tshirts that seem so Molly Hatchet nowadays.

Anyway, I look and do a double take. This guy is easily 6-4, 230 pounds and on his shirt it says "LUCINDA WILLIAMS" US TOUR 2005 - and then goes on to list the cities. LUCINDA WILLIAMS? The country singer turned pop star back to country? Since when is she stimulating music for a Sunday of football? And not to mention for a guy who looks like a football player? Wacky I tell you. Not so wacky as my friends, The Berkley All Blues Women's Rugby team who listen to Brandi Carlisle before each game (not music to pump you up - I do a tribute to these ladies in my second Podcast), but not far from it.

Thank you sir, whoever you are for giving me something to write about and changing my preparations for Sunday football forever. Are you ready for some football? After Lucinda Williams, I'm ready for anything.