While most of my family and friends were sitting inside TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville last Saturday afternoon, I was at an outdoor industry trade show in Denver. I knew that this was going to be the case for months, and I tried to convince myself that it was going to be okay if I missed the game. I told myself a ton of lies in order to believe I might not miss watching the game as badly as I knew I probably would. Like all lies, they turned out to be false.
As the first three quarters went by, I kept up with the game by occasionally glancing at my phone during appointments.