Part 1 of my conversation with guest Phil Stacey about growing up as sports fans.

Show notes:

• Recorded on the way to Tree House Brewing

• Phil: Grew up watching sports with his dad, playing sports with his brothers

• Watched a lot of tennis in the late '70s/early /80s

• Both read the sports page of the local paper

• Collecting sports cards was a big hobby

• Jay: Began watching hockey with dad, quickly became obsessed

• Played street hockey with the neighborhood kids

• Phil: We played outside with no supervision all day

• Now we don't let our kids go anywhere on their own

• Imagining you're a pro athlete

• Memories of church league hoops

• Jay: We played "foot hockey" (aka soccer with a tennis ball) every day at recess

• Street hockey got serious, playing teams from across town

• No fun playing sports against your boss

• Jay: Parents wouldn't let me play organized youth hockey

• Didn't play sports the first two years of high school because of multiple moves

• Good way to make friends

• Jay: Played a lot of sports after college

• Played soccer, hockey, golf, tennis

• It's no fun when people start acting like jerks

• Started getting involved with coaching youth sports when kids started playing

• Some parents take their kids' sports way too seriously

• Let your kids enjoy themselves

• Sports fans can be really dumb

• Going to games as a kid

• Baseball is a major sport, but it's getting tough to watch a whole game on TV

• The kids love the e-sports

• To be continued

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Voiceover work is courtesy of James Gralian.