I Don't Even Like Football!!

It's not unusual to see a TV playing a sports game or commercials when you walk in a restaurant, typically across from the bar (if there is one). Every once in a while I used to sit down with my dad to watch a Raiders game, or a Kings game with my brother, but I don't really follow professional sports so I typically wouldn't choose to watch them on TV, but that's what's always playing in restaurants. I never understood football, no matter how much my dad tried to explain it to me, and I don't like to watch it, but for some reason, whenever it's playing in a restaurant, I have to resist the urge to watch it. Even when something as stupid as a McDonald's commercial appears on screen, I'll willingly watch that too, and I don't know why. I've thought about this incapability to look away from the television for years now, always wondering why I'm like this, but I feel like I'm not the only one.

I think that the media and technology in general has become such a big part of our lives in the last few years, that as Frontline addressed in their documentary, "Digital Nation," we have become addicted to our electronics. Because of this, we're always feeling the need to be holding a phone or glued to a screen of some kind, which I think is why I have a hard time looking away from TVs playing things I don't even like in restaurants. I think we've become so attached to materialistic things like our phones and the media that we'll do anything to have access to it, even if it doesn't interest us.