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Show Quiet... Dads got Footballites doffs, touchdowns, Buba Bean and Mean Joe Green. I would rather he would learn frnm Sesame Street, but we haven't been able to get that channel in Parowan for a long, long time. Oh well I suppose if we could they would he showing educational football. By Mary Gae Evans Every woman and child in America is in grave danger. We are all victims of a plaque, an insidious creeping threat to our rights to ever watch a TV set uncluttered un-cluttered by football players. Every season the networks net-works slip in a few more games. We used to see one game a week and at the end of the season the bowl games. Now it has creeped into our TV's several nights full schedule on weekends. No more Saturday morning cartoons for the kids. Instead In-stead Dad leaps out of bed for the pre-game warmups. If we had declared war last weekend president Carter would not have been able to find a time slot to announce it in. Even he wouldn't dare interrupt the glorious instant replays on TV. I still can't believe it -- ten games in four days. The action began on .Thursday and by Monday night half time the men were happily taxed and slightly incoherent. in-coherent. Most could not remember which teams won or lost or who made the spectacular plays. Some of them had to be helped from their chairs, and some remained frozen into a sitting position requiring help to acquire a vertical position. There are some advantages ad-vantages I'll admit. A man -deeply involved 4 iva foot ba 1 1 game will agree to anything just to get you to shut up. So you can ask for a new outfit, an addition on the house or permission to run away with Burt Reynolds. Our one year old grandson has improved his vocabulary with his constant exposure to the gladiators on the tube. Instead In-stead of Ma Ma, Da Da and bye, bye, he runs around with a football chattering chat-tering about passes, han- |
