Peyton ......who needs ya!

Not that I am any big sports fan and anyone that knows me can attest to that but, really Peyton? You have to know that all of Tennessee or at least the die-hard University of TN (GO VOLS!!!) fans were praying and fasting (which is ridiculous, btw)for their boy to come back home. Really, would you be surprised?

I lived in the Knoxville area for more than twenty-six years, I married an East TN boy, a die-hard UT fan, tried and true. I was there when you splashed on the scene to bring the VOLS home with victories....there was nobody like you. You were everywhere. We couldn't turn on the television without enduring those sweet St. Mary's Hospital commercials with you and the Nuns. Very quaint and endearing. You were the face of Knoxville at that time with the exception of Pat Head Summit, the VOLS Women's BBall coach, the best one ever no less! And might I point out...hasn't left us! Two words...LOY-AL!

So when you leave the Colts and go shopping around for a new team and you actually come on over and tease us this way....well that was just mean. Nashville, which is where we live now....and was my hometown area, was all giddy over the prospect of our Tennessee VOL hometown hero coming back to finish out here. Literally the place was all a Twitter! and Facebook, TV news reports, news papers and etcetera! etcetera! etcetera! as Willy Wonka would say! Once again, PEYTON FEVER! UGH!

My own dear saintly husband...the dyed in the wool UT fan, the man who made me denounce Vanderbilt before he would marry me because, I was a VOLS fan NOW..........this poor man who works hard and has few carnal things he asks for, walks in the door today...his head hung low, barely able to take one more step......crushed in defeat!

"Honey what's wrong" ...I say in my sweet loving wife voice. He being a preacher I thought...... maybe he lost his favorite Bible or one our church folks were sick, or at least ......he lost his golf match (and I was sooo glad he went, good exercise and vitamin D) that he just came home from for which is the first time he has played in months and months. A big fat NO!

NO Peyton it's all your fault! You in one single decision, selfishly and without any concern for all the fans who loyally have followed you "Through the Years".......(picture in your head if you will...Kenny Rogers singing song by same name, for drama), Peyton you had the option to pay us all back in one fail swoop but NO! Selfishness is so ugly and I hope when it snows so deep where you are going you remember our nice mild winters here in the great State of Tennessee.

Sure Peyton, life will go on, my precious husband of thirty years will live to love another player, and as I comfort him in the sweet caring loving way that all who know me will be assured I will just repeat these words.......

Peyton...who needs ya!

p.s.
I don't think our uniform looks very good on you anyways!

p.s.s
This was written in fun....I really could care less....just saying!