The Sports Fanatic

The Sports Fanatic By Elton Camp No matter what’s going on or about to occur, Bubba leaves no doubt it’s sports he does prefer His desire to “follow the action” led him to get An extravagant fifty-five-inch LED television set He watches any available game both day and night To dominant the set’s use he claims the sole right Vital breaking news is being reported on CNN? Too bad, the football game is just about to begin Nobody in front of the screen is allowed to walk And in the room, nobody is permitted even to talk A strong tornado is bearing down on his town? An emergency interruption and he begins to frown The Weather Channel’s for that, he will angrily say Why, that announcement made me miss the last play Bubba is determined that he will fulfill his dream And see every game of his favorite football team If the money he can, in some way pull, together, He’ll go in person no matter of distance or weather He sits in the stands and loudly screams and cheers While he smokes cigarettes and drinks many beers For my part, I don’t see how such delight he finds In watching some guys patting each other’s behinds If sports for its existence came to be dependent on me Then it is plumb out of luck that they’d come to be