I don't know what you're doing this weekend, other than watching high school football and college football and pro football and more pro football and FOOTBALL, MAN, FOOTBALL!
But there's something happening in New York tomorrow that's, you know, kinda cool.
Yes, you there in the back in your gravy-stained throwback Mark Gastineau jersey.
"DOES IT INVOLVE FOOTBALL?"
No.
"WHY NOT?"
Because it doesn't.
"WELL, THAT'S BULL****!"
Um ... no. No, it isn't. And please escort this gentleman out.
That's because the Blob has something to say about something that does not involve football, and in fact does not involve any of your normal sports. It involves tennis.
Hear what's happening tomorrow in the U.S. Open?
Two teenagers are playing for the women's singles title.
One (Emma Raducanu) is British. One (Leylah Fernandez) is Canadian. Raducanu is 18; Fernandez is 19. Neither came into the U.S. Open ranked in the top 100 women players in the world.
Yet here they are. And history rides shotgun with them.
First of all, it's the first time in U.S. Open history that two teenagers have played for a singles title. Second, Raducanu is the first Englishwoman to reach the U.S. Open final in 44 years.
You have to go all the way back to Virginia Wade in 1977 to find the last one. Disco was a thing then. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, dressed like Dreamsicles, were the worst team in the history of professional football. Raducanu's father, Ian, was a preschooler. And Joe Biden had just become eligible for Medicare.
(Sorry. Just goin' for the cheap laugh there.)
Anyway ... again, this is some pretty cool stuff. I mean, it's not football, but it might be worth tuning in, even if you haven't paid attention to tennis since Chrissie and Martina and McEnroe and Connors were knocking about.
Consider it a programming note.
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