Me, the sabbath & the Dallas Cowboys.
One of my uncles became a seventh day adventist after he came back from serving in the Korean conflict. He in turn convinced some of his family members to become adventists as well. Some of those that converted were my mom, my grandfather, my grandmother and one of my aunts. Which basically meant I was a convert as well.
My uncle would strong arm me, more or less, into keeping the sabbath and have church with him at his cabin out in the woods. It would be me, him and maybe two other folks. I was the only child. I hated it. I learned to like it later but, back then I wanted to run & play with my friends on Saturday.
Then I found the bright side of keeping the sabbath. This is how I thought back then as a boy. If I kept the sabbath, which lasted from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset, I was free on Sundays to do what I wanted. That meant i could watch about five hours of Dallas Cowboys programming. There was the DC highlights at 10:00am, Then the Tom Landry show would run from 10:30am until 11:00am. Then NFL preview lasted from 11 until the 12 noon kick off. Then the DC game would last from noon until about 3pm. Five hours of dallas cowboy bliss. Some of the other adults would try and force me to go to church on Sundays, but I would say uh uh uh, I went to church yesterday.