I had been looking forward to last night's Monday Night Football game all week. The only problem was that it was showing on a network that we don't have, since we only have local TV channels. So, we met a couple friends from church at a local sports bar to watch the game.

One nice thing about that is that smoking is banned in bars here, so we could enjoy the game in relative comfort.

One other nice thing about watching Monday Night Football here is that the games start right after work for me (5:30), so there's not a lot of time to kill before the game. Of course, if I got off work later, it would be a pain to miss the beginning of the game. But, in our case since we went to a sports bar, it was happy hour so food and drinks were cheaper. And, the early start meant that we could enjoy the entire game without worrying about going to bed on time since we were home by 9.

That was the Cowboys' only Monday Night Football game this year, and it was a good one, so I'm glad I got to watch it.