Cape demographics have changed significantly
Cape’s 1973 state championship girls’ basketball team. SUBMITTED PHOTO
Dave Frederick
January 22, 2021
You there? - The answer to that texted question is always, yes, I am here; otherwise, I would have to be someplace else. Livestreamed transmissions from sporting events that don’t allow spectators isn’t always reliable, but it helps if the system is actually turned on. I was sitting in my blue chair matside at Polytech Jan. 20, taking photos and double-texting wrestling results because I was there, but when the livestream was finally activated after five matches, I was thrown out of the boat like an extra youth-sized lifejacket for a chair-and-a-half-sized adult. And because maybe I’m crazy like Gnarls Barkley, I get home and log into the Caesar Rodney at Milford match, except none of the streaming platforms are working. But the Milford wrestling Facebook page was livestreaming the match, a one-point comeback win by the Riders powered by three forfeits. Eating chicken parmesan from Touch of Italy while watching a Facebook Live high school wrestling match while I have another thousand photos of an earlier match qualifies me as being on the spectrum of Pop Pop sports disorders. Do you know where your grandfather is on any given day? “Gramps, you there?”