From the Sidelines
A week packed with Dynamite
Sports reporter
This might be the most lame sentence uttered by anyone. Ever.
I've watched Napoleon Dynamite five times in the last week.
Considering I slept about seven hours a night, went to church twice, celebrated New Year's Eve with friends, visited my grandparents twice, and was in the car for about a full day, I spent entirely too much time on a movie so dumb it made Jessica Simpson look smart.
But man was it funny.
A low-budget film, estimated at $400,000, it has so far grossed more than $44 million. Talk about getting rich quick.
What does this movie have to do with sports? Well other than some small football references and the main character playing tetherball worse than a blind monkey, absolutely nothing.
That was one of the reasons I loved this movie. There were hardly any sports involved.
Without playing the role of a spoiler, the movie chronicles the life of Napoleon Dynamite and Pedro Sanchez, two, let's just say not-so-cool, high schoolers in a small town in Idaho. That's pretty much the entire movie.
After watching 8,000 bowl games, a KU basketball game, 57 NBA games, 17 NFL games, eating, sleeping, and drinking sports, it was a nice break.
My mom always said she thought the fact I loved sports more than anything was OK, but always wanted me to broaden my horizons. Well, now I have. All the way to Idaho, following an in-his-own-world redhead and a transfer student from Juarez, Mexico.
Something about this quirky movie kept me watching again and again. Maybe it was because it was so different from the normal movies or television shows I watch. I'm not really sure.
I've decided to put a hold on watching it for a while, if only to assure myself I don't need a lobotomy.
In the meantime I think I'll focus on wrestling and basketball this week.
