On football and the holidays 12/27/19

We sent our annual holiday poster out early for Christmas and Kwanzaa and late for Hanukkah, managing to offend everyone. It also gave us a cute hook for the holiday poster. And we always post to Facebook on Tuesday so that’s the real reason we were both early for some and late for others. That and the fact that Andy enjoys being offensive sometimes. On RARE occasions.

Our best comics come from personal experience. Either John’s when he tried to fix a car by himself or this week’s strip, based on Andy’s season tickets to his beloved NY Giants. His dad took him to every home game starting when Andy was 7 years old.  Andy later took his little brother. And then there was an 8 year hiatus when Andy attended college in St. Louis and followed it up with grad school and his early career in Chicago, but besides that, it was Giants football come rain, sleet or snow. He went with his cousins and buddies. Then came his wife and daughter who sometimes went but usually under protest, except when Ali was too young to realize she hated it. Then came his son Greg and he took to it like a fish takes to water.

Then Andy hit 65. And started to feel the snow and the cold and the wind. And he thought about how nice it was during away games to watch on his hi-def, big screen tv at home. Hanging with his friends and his son’s friends, listening to the announcers point things out he’d never realize on his own. Followed by the growing realization that his time for braving the elements, prepping for the tailgates, leaving the house at 9:30 and not coming home until 5:30 or 6, was slowly coming to a close.

This comic is about football tickets but it’s about so much more. It’s about giving in to age but going kicking and screaming every step of the way. Kind of like Andy himself.

Happy Holidays and we will see you next week,

Andy and John