... weeks ago, while I was reading articles on Bleacher Report at work, my wife called me.  

"Honey," she said, "I've booked us a romantic weekend."

"Great!" I replied. "When?"

"The weekend of September 12th."

"Ok, sounds good," I said and hung up.

That was that.  

I went back to "work" and carried on with the rest of my day.  

Today, as the season draws evermore closer it dawned on me. I'm going to be off in Williamsburg, Virginia as my Redskins take the field.

As my wife said "The weekend of September 12th."  My hunter-gatherer brain didn't take into context that the 13th follows the 12th and that a weekend is two days, and that second day the beginning of the season...

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