Who’s in the kitchen: Game time hot bbq chicken wings

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Fall football Sundays and post season baseball usually wipes out “couple’s time” as we know it. Not in my case though. I’m a crazy die-hard Atlanta Braves baseball and Miami Dolphin football fan, my husband Jerry, a Yankee and Giant’s fan. A few years ago, my daughter walked into the house with a few friends just as I was shouting and waving my foam tomahawk back and forth (as we Brave’s fans lovingly call “the chop”) while cheering a player who had just homered. I hadn’t heard them come in since I was in the study. Her girlfriends laughed, but the boys said, “Wow, that’s your mom, how cool!” Imagine how cool they would have thought my 90 year old (k’h) mom was had she been sitting near me at the time. She does a mean “chop” accompanied by the chant. She was a quick learner. When our games are on simultaneously, Jerry watches downstairs in the den, I’m up in the study, each of us wildly cheering our teams, or unfortunately, groaning at times. Edy Blady and Harry Fink, you should come over and cheer with Jerry--I know you live and breathe Yankees as well!

I need to win every single game. Each loss is devastating to me. Last year, after the Brave’s first loss, Jerry said to me “Judy, it’s just one game, really only a game and it’s the first week.” I said, “Every game counts, and in the end we could lose the division or the wildcard by one game.” Each time they lost in the first two months, Jerry would remind me that other teams will begin to fade come June and July and that I didn’t have to be concerned yet. He knew better than to come anywhere near me when we lost the wild card berth by “1” game last season. I am proud to say that I have not missed one game this year. If I couldn’t watch them on T.V. (I have the baseball package) I taped the game or followed them on my cell phone whether at a wedding ceremony, at work, and even at my son Daniel’s law school graduation…he understood, he’s the same crazy fan as I am. And by the way, I didn’t only watch the Braves, I watched every team game in my division to make sure they lost. Yes, “we” became any team that played against the Mets, Nationals, Marlins or Phillies. As the deadline for this article is before the wild card playoff game, I can only hope we win and that the umpires have their Seeing Eye dogs with them.

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