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I feel like Jim Irsay. More on that later
Some of you might have heard by now that I have become a homeowner. I just packed the first load into my car to start the move, at five in the morning. I have until the first to move, but a problem with working for tips is that no vacation is ever truly a paid vacation.
I keep thinking about Jim Irsay, and the move to Indianapolis. Irsay moved his team's offices and equipment overnight with little fanfare. This is the iconic image of that move. But how can you really call it an overnight move. It's not as if the Colts played a scrimmage against the Rams at daybreak. I don't think Mike Pagel drove the moving trucks. What is a football team. What image does the term "Baltimore Colts" refer to. When we think of a sports team, we tend to think first about the players. Sometimes a great coach, or even an iconic game or play. Only a few owners are the public image of their team (Yankees, Raiders). Certainly nobody thinks of the front offices and training equipment. Maybe the NFL leage office had a switch along the line of BAL <> IND.
What exactly am I getting at. Not much really, but I am moving piecemeal this week. At what point will my new house be my home. You could say it already is, since I already own it. But I'm still livng in this apartment for a week.
I though for a while and I decided that there are four objects that I could consider location markers. A photograph, a stuffed monkey, a blanket, and an alarm clock. Where those are, I am.
Tell me about yourselves. What do you have that marks a place as yours?
Some of you might have heard by now that I have become a homeowner. I just packed the first load into my car to start the move, at five in the morning. I have until the first to move, but a problem with working for tips is that no vacation is ever truly a paid vacation.
I keep thinking about Jim Irsay, and the move to Indianapolis. Irsay moved his team's offices and equipment overnight with little fanfare. This is the iconic image of that move. But how can you really call it an overnight move. It's not as if the Colts played a scrimmage against the Rams at daybreak. I don't think Mike Pagel drove the moving trucks. What is a football team. What image does the term "Baltimore Colts" refer to. When we think of a sports team, we tend to think first about the players. Sometimes a great coach, or even an iconic game or play. Only a few owners are the public image of their team (Yankees, Raiders). Certainly nobody thinks of the front offices and training equipment. Maybe the NFL leage office had a switch along the line of BAL <> IND.
What exactly am I getting at. Not much really, but I am moving piecemeal this week. At what point will my new house be my home. You could say it already is, since I already own it. But I'm still livng in this apartment for a week.
I though for a while and I decided that there are four objects that I could consider location markers. A photograph, a stuffed monkey, a blanket, and an alarm clock. Where those are, I am.
Tell me about yourselves. What do you have that marks a place as yours?