No One's Going To Save You From The Beast About To Strike

December 2, 2011

Thriller lives on at the Junior High dance.
Other popular dances included "Jump On It" and "The Macarena".  But I hope they liked the Macarena ironically.


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AV Club Interview with Drew Magary about “The Postmortal”.

AVC: As you get older and things get more serious, how has your perception of sports changed—how you engage with sports, how you follow it—especially now that you have kids?

DM: You have to de-prioritize it. When you’re 18, when you’re at college, sports can be your life. You can watch every baseball game, every college basketball game, every football game. Once you have a family and kids, you can’t do that anymore. I can’t watch every basketball game. That would be completely insane. I’ve had to do this triage where I pick what sport is important to me, which happens to be football, so football is what I watch, and I don’t really watch too many other sports anymore. I occasionally get glimpses, but I have to reprioritize, because that’s how it naturally progresses—things like family, responsibilities, and your job all take precedent. Now, my job happens to be sports-related, so it’s like my duty to watch football. It’s my job. But that’s not a change for me. When you’re 18, it’s life and death, because you don’t have a kid, and it’s a much bigger deal when you’re 18. Having a kid—when the Vikings lost the 2009 NFC title game, it sucked, and I’m not happy about it, but my kid is still alive. You have to have that horrible forced perspective that you don’t want. [Laughs.] I’d much rather be a raving lunatic when I watch a game, but I’m not.