Being a masochist (or what one might call a lover of hot, flat and ugly), living in that strange state down there, he just loves it, what else would he do but watch Manatees and go to early bird specials if couldn't lick his wounds on a daily basis?
:-)
hot, flat and uglypreferable to your cold, gray, rusting, rotting, bankrupt and crime-infested center of perpetual decline that is Michigan*
*obscure Indian word meaning "if they are lucky they might win 3 games"