SWEETEN MY COFFEE WITH A MORNING KISS

Remember that lyric from an old 60's song? I think it was from a song entitled "Then You Can Tell Me Good-bye". It was one of those that couples would say, "Hey, baby they're playing our song." Which was the name of another song that couples shared. You know, for validation. For security. For all those reasons that high school couples are couples anyway(s). Like sharing of one name, like Bennifer for Ben and Jennifer. Actually, I never knew anyone that did that back then. But when you were a couple, the two names always were attached with each other.

When I was back in MTV recently, we picked up our middle grandchild from school and took him to lunch at Mc Donalds. He and his G-Ma went to pick out a seat while I was stuck in the food line with high school students also on lunch break. It was Friday which meant football. Once a basketball town, MTV is turning into a football town because of the success of the program. I noticed a player, qb probably wearing his game jersey #5. With him was his girlfriend wearing his road jersey #5. There were others there, too, proudly displaying their honey's jersey.

It made me want to play high school football again. Well, despite what my Az buddies think as a result of my adult body, I didn't play high school football. I simply wasn't big enough. Nor motivated enough. Nor talented enough. After breaking my nose (possibly) in a neighborhood game when the guy I tackled kicked me there on this way down, I never played with the same intensity again.

But had they let your girlfriend wear your jersey, proudly displaying her loyalty and your possession (at least during football season), I think I might have had a little more motivation. Now, if they just put your name on the back as in the pros, well, I know I would have played.