"Oh, no," I answered. "I wouldn't know how to act if we did."
From the time we were young kids, we never agreed on anything. Especially sports teams. Not sure whether I liked the teams and he chose just not to like (but that's a little narcissistic) or if we just disagree on everything. Life will bear us out, but I still argue that he was just a bandwagon fan the entire time anyway.
The New York Mets in '86, Dallas Cowboys a year or two later. Cowboys were always our other brother Lowell's favorite team also, so that's less obvious. But equally obnoxious. Amazingly he doesn't still follow the Edmonton Oilers or even the Boston Celtics, who he fell in love with during that period as well. I actually liked the Islanders (another Lowell team) and the Philadelphia 76ers
But those sports never mattered. The Yankee/Mets and Cowboys/Giants. Those were natural opposites. Bitter arguments on each side. Arguments that follow us through each stage of our lives. Weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, Births. We just fight, it's what we do.
This all became clear to me the other day when we were at my parents' place and Phil went on another one of his rants, this time about Friday Night Lights.
"Best show on TV! How great is it? Dad dutifully agrees, if not matching his enthusiasm. I wistfully wish I had been watching the show from the beginning. I'll catch up, heck, just linked to it on Hulu.
"It really is great," Dad notes.
"Oh," I add, realizing I had not had a chance to catch up with anyone on this, since nobody I now follows it but him, "did you see Rescue Me?"
"Yes," he says, shaking his head.
"So? What did you think?"
"Great. Fantastic," he says. "That could be the best show on TV, actually."
Phil silently nods, but his face shows he doesn't believe there is any possible way this could be true, even though he has NEVER SEEN THE SHOW ONCE!
"It's amazing, dude," I say to him, in a much less zealous way than he pushes FNL on anyone who will listen, including a Facebook post. "New York, firefighters, Denis Leary. It's a good show."
The eerie thing is that the one show we DO agree on is 90210. The zip code where apparently everyone marries or has babies with their high school sweethearts. Kelly's son Sammy is staying with his dad Dylan at the same time a Japanese-speaking Donna Martin is still married to David Silver, making her the step-sister in law of Silver.
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