In my youth I played basketball.

Not something you would know from my currently over 200 pound frame.

It was County Rec, and nothing fancy. We did pretty well. I never played beyond that level, and was never exceptional at it quite frankly, although it was enjoyable just the same.

Unfortunately I just can not get as fired up about Basketball as I do about football.

Yes Tennessee is playing Wyoming. Yes Bruce Pearl has created a simply amazing program and is doing superbly.

For some reason though, I just can not get motivated to watch basketball. Hell I can’t even play a basketball video game.

Would I be interested in attempting to play? Probably if I did not look like a beer keg on upside down bowling pins. Unfortunately I’m more likely to run over my opponent, fall on them, and break multiple bones of their choosing than I am to steal the ball and reverse it for a lay up.

Lets face it, 5ft 10 inch Irish beer kegs are not renowned for their basketball prowess.

In watching a home movie last night it dawned on me just how much weight I have gained. The term double dribble I think was invented with people like  me in mind when the ref saw our Guinness inspired beer gut hanging over our jeans.

As such, even though I have been working out 3 days a week, even though I have been watching what I eat with much gusto, I have got to get a bicycle or something similar and start getting some miles behind me. And inches.

Or the next personal foul will be called on my physician when he See’s my tubby kiester.