I love to go for a long bike ride around Linda Mar when football games are on TV. The empty streets are all mine for a few hours. Pickup trucks and SUVs that normally bomb around town are parked like riderless horses tied up at some frontier sports saloon. Dead Christmas trees sit forlornly at the curb. The only other people out there besides me are the pizza delivery guys and the gardeners. (I was going to say that you could hear a pin drop, except for the gardeners' damn leaf blowers.) Other than that, it is eerily quiet in P-Town at these special times. The air is brisk and crisp. You should try it some time. Do like I do and tape the games. Then you can watch them later and fast-forward through the commercials, jock talk, and boring timeouts. GO OUT LONG!
JUAN MAYBURRITO
RIPTIDE SPORTS WRITER
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