Love wins over football
The last time the Dallas Cowboys and the San Francisco 49ers faced off in a postseason playoff game in 1994, Steve and Robin Anthony were newlyweds. On Sunday the couple were in the stands in Arlington, Texas, for the long awaited rematch in the wildcard game ... Steve decked out in Niners red and Robin making a lone star fashion statement in blue and white.
Their fan wagons had beginnings in childhood for each. Robin’s memories of watching the Cowboys with her dad when she was a young girl are fond ones. Steve became a San Francisco fan in elementary school.
Steve attends a San Francisco regular season home game each year. Robin makes the trek to the Big D every other year to cheer on her Cowboys. Throughout the regular season each year, game day is a spent in front of the TV but with no shortage of sporting the attire and festivities of an indoor tailgate party.
Robin says she and Steve cheer for the other’s team unless they’re playing each other, then it’s every fan for themselves.
“We’re a divided football family,” said Steve, “but united in everything else!”
San Francisco prevailed on Sunday, eliminating Dallas, so this coming weekend when they meet the Green bay Packers, Robin won’t be wearing cheese on her head out of spite, she’ll be rooting for her hubs’ team to move closer to earning a spot in the Super Bowl on Feb. 13. It might be a little too much to ask for her to put away her Cowboy regalia and sport red and gold, though.
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David Adlard is the renowned chef/owner of the hugely popular restaurant, Candle in the Woods, where it takes months to find reservation openings. He’s a husband, father, mentor and adventurer. Recently he crossed paths with a former student who paid him a great compliment. In fact, it’s something we all should aspire to achieve.
The compliment? “You’re just really good at life.”
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Happy Birthday today to Austin Isakson, Wade McLean, Roy Carlson, Gavin Krieg and Terry Drapeau. Tomorrow Bob Short, Mary Spridgeon and Larry Sackett celebrate birthdays. Ryan Davis, Chelsea Camarata, Nicole Jones, Carrie Beals and Mary Crosby blow out the candles on Jan. 21. Eric English, Analisa Raynor, Nora Horn, Larry Spencer, Angie Phillips, Glen Abbott and Peggy Brothers put on their party hats on Saturday. Come Sunday Chelsea Dickinson, Sadie Lynn Fisher, Daryl Gankema, Joy Lynch, Paul Lash and Jamie Crawford have their cake and eat it, too. Sue Myers, Marion Richardson, Tina Nowoj, Kylie Frank, Josh Adams, Cindy Shepperd, May Lynn Hammon, Ed Santos, Danelle Reagan, Jillian-Kate Scott and Acaja-Lyn Scott celebrate on Monday. Taking another trip around the sun on Jan. 25 are Rod Heitstuman, Shauna Moore, Jonathan Madrid, Marlene Waddell, Lizzie Nowoj, Jadrian Hammon, Pearl Robertson, Jerrilou Shofner, Athena Kinsry, Michaelle Sande, Mike Erin, Sherry Farmer and Rick Demmig.
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Kerri Rankin Thoreson is a member of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and the former publisher of the Post Falls Tribune. Main Street appears every Wednesday in The Press and Kerri can be contacted on Facebook or via email [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @kerrithoreson.