Bumperpodcast #312 – Football?

Rufus T. Rufus: oh bro you sound rough are you okay what is going on with you bumper car hey hey what is happening huh because of football football it's football football football football and football and and wait listen dude okay so you're a little bit upset about some football is what i'm is what i'm getting that's what i'm hearing and that's totally fine uh me myself i'm a little bit sick so you know not everything's going perfect for everybody in the whole wide world i'm sick too oh okay oh my yeah okay you talk you talk okay thanks so i don't know here's the thing everyone

Natty Bumpercar: uh this is natty bumper car welcome to the bumper podcast i'm a little bit sickly and i had uh i had a rough week i had a rough week i had a rough week i um i don't know you okay if you know this i have a giant blot in my throat yeah it's a sickness keep swallowing i apologize uh i'm from georgia wait you're from georgia yeah i never knew that i'm a pig

Rufus T. Rufus: i'm i mean i i know people that live in georgia and now that i think about it you're talking about football that's like pigskin so it makes sense that i'm here now now it all ties together now it all makes a lot of sense perfect perfect keep going keep telling your little story it's good we're good we're fine

Natty Bumpercar: okay anyway i'm from georgia and and last year was a big year it was an exciting year the uh atlanta falcons and here i'm gonna preface this i haven't been a football person my whole life i don't do a lot of football uh i just never did a lot of sports really but evidently there's some sort of processes in my brain behind the scenes that really get into sports a lot and um so last year the falcons atlanta falcons got into the super bowl and they were winning by a lot of points it was something like 28 to 3 at the halftime and so i i was feeling this euphoria this excitement this i was just like wow this is so cool and you know if you if you parse it down if you go through the whole thing you go well why is it cool i'm i'm not i don't live in georgia anymore i i don't play football i'm not on the street i'm not on the street i'm not on the street i'm not on the team uh but I think it's something deeper inside it doesn't have much I mean it has I guess something to do with football but it has to do with with nostalgia and where you came from maybe and memories uh from when you were growing up and and you know just I don't know bits and pieces of Flotsam and Jetsam Flotsam and Jetsam I'm gonna say kind of come to the you know get unearthed and uh and that was a rough game because they ended up losing to the uh to the New England New England New England I just made that one word New England Patriots New England Patriots um and it was a heartbreaker it hurt hurt hurt hurt a lot and it was a weird thing for me and uh but then this week you the uh the the Georgia Bulldogs of Georgia of the University of Georgia Athens Georgia which is where I went to college played in the national championship so now we have two Georgia teams within the span of a year going to as far along in their respective uh sports as they possibly can that's unprecedented that's amazing that's great um and and Georgia had had beaten in Oklahoma in a in a wonderful Rose Bowl it was super exciting that's I guess I'm just talking about football right now and um so even though they were playing on Monday I was excited but I was trying to temper my excitement but then I discovered I couldn't temper my excitement because it was untemperable it was just there and um so that night I went uh there's a restaurant and they have uh I got little chickens and I had some sweet tea and I got some some lemonade and I took it all home and I'm not gonna say their name because I gotta tell you this on a big note the bumper podcast finally has a sponsor we got sponsored they haven't sent me the information to uh do the read yet but starting the next episode i'm hoping sponsor what how cool is that 300 and whatever 12 episodes in and somebody finally was like you know what we need to give that guy some dollars so good good for us good for me good for the bumper podcast good for

Rufus T. Rufus: me too and by the way i heard from the sponsor yeah good they yeah they said they want it just to be me okay so of course who does the reads and they want me to get all the money can i go back no yeah well go ahead and go go back and talk about the football but i just wanted to step in as rufus t rufus says that i get a copy so just make sure that you know that we know that i know

Natty Bumpercar: okay okay okay so anyway sponsor hooray uh back to the uh the football so it was it was last it was monday night and last monday uh january the uh 8th 2017 18 2018 a day that will live in infamy for me uh and and the same thing happened the exact same thing they they were winning at the half by a couple of a couple of the touchdowns and i had people texting me this is it they got it look how they're playing and i was just like oh no no no no no no no no no no no no why why are we getting excited remember what happened remember what just happened in not this stadium but the stadium next door that they tore down the same thing actually wasn't it it was wherever the super bowl was and uh so i i you know but you know you start to feel you start to have feelings oh this could happen this is gonna be great and uh so here's my theory i'm gonna take a pause there in life and i think i've talked about this before i feel like people have buckets right and you have buckets that you put things in otherwise life is is is unmanageable there's just too much going on right and so people put their their their joys and their sorry sorrows in in in buckets so some people do comic books uh they have favorite characters and so they live and die by these things some people have sports some people have uh movies or you know art in general or um or music i guess that's art and uh i even count religiousness and uh i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't know and all this because these are things that are outside of you that you invest yourself in that you put yourself in right and so a lot of how you act or how you feel can be in part determined by these things and so with sports what i've come to learn and unfortunately because i don't really love it is there's these buckets and you know how you're feeling i'm doing great my team won all right cool you know did you get anything out of it joy i guess you know the excitement of watching the game but so people make it emotional investments in these things and then when these or even like they place emotional bets i'm betting that i'm putting my my uh emotions into this thing and betting that i'm going to come out of this game feeling better than i did before and sometimes you win that bet and sometimes you don't win that bet so it's it's like a gambler's attitude and i'm going to come out of this game feeling better than i did before and sometimes you win and uh you know monday night it uh we got the second half got crushed and for a lot of different reasons football reasons i could tell you football i could tell you some reasons that i think they they they went with the wrong they had two running backs that they used particularly a guy named nick chubb and who's like a bowling ball and he kept going down the middle and alabama has uh just a wall of defense that he can't get through and another guy named sony michelle who was fast and was getting to four to five yards per run and he's quick and uh for some reason they stopped using him i thought that was a strange thing um i thought our defense started playing sloppy when they brought in another quarterback they had game planned for the other quarterback and when the this new quarterback came in they just seemed to be caught flat-footed and there were no adjustments made on on the georgia sidelines they played great you know uh and i think that's what i'm going to be doing for the rest of the it was a fun game it was exciting um but just didn't work out and it hurt hurt a lot hurt me too bro especially because you know the way it ended it was there was it was overtime georgia had just kicked a 51 yard field goal and so they were up by three and then they sacked the other quarterback on the next uh drive so he was a second down and 26 yards which is a long way took him out of field goal range felt like this is it we're gonna win the next play second down and 26 41 i think yard pass touchdown end of the game all right so your emotions at that point are all over the place not to mention they got into overtime when alabama missed a field goal uh from pretty close in so you're just like you think you lost the game then oh you didn't lose the game you're still in it oh okay so i was so excited i couldn't go to sleep i couldn't go to sleep and i had drunk drank whatever a half a gallon of sweet tea so i was full of sugar and i was awake until 4 a.m or 4 a.m and the kids got up at like 5 30 and then i was at work you know and i just i'm not built for this anymore you ain't built for it bro you're just not exactly yeah you're old and then i had to work the next night it's tuesday until almost two in the morning so now guess what i'm sickly but that's okay because the bumper podcast is back and we've got a sponsor and football's off my chest now and thank you and i love you and high five

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