Full disclosure...
This
is absolutely my favorite time of year. Football is back! And I
honestly can't tell you if its because of the start of the regular
football season or because its time to draft Fantasy Football teams.
The boys of summer have to move over this week and it feels like the
first official hallmark of the fall is here. This is the time of year
that most of America has been waiting for. The time when for the next
20 odd weeks we tune in 3 times a week and watch grown men dressed in
horrible uniforms smash into each other at high speeds. Where each week
the Monday morning conversations are dominated by what happened in 12
hours on Sunday and the anticipation of one last game that evening.
Add
to that the brilliant decision several years ago of the NFL to embrace
fantasy football and every telecast has become and event that focuses
America's schizophrenic attention into easily marketed time blocks.
Football is King and I for one am one if its loyal subjects. The best
part of the return of football? The something for everyone aspect of
every game. Your favorite team not playing? Odds are someone in a game
that is being played a channel flip away. Not into fantasy football?
I'm sure you know someone that likes a team that is winning or losing
and there is nothing better than the bragging, boasting, or ribbing that
follows the next day.
Of the major American
sports none have done so much to make their fans a part of the
excitement as the NFL. At the bottom of their telecasts you see the
fantasy scores. There are no hard to understand stats like PERs
(Basketball) or ERAs (Baseball). Everyone knows what a sack is, what it
looks like, and how it impacts the game. The big moments in an NFL
game are so clearly defined. A receiver or running back breaking free
for a 60yd gain LOOKS like it was important. A double play in the 3rd
inning may or may not effect the final score. That "dagger" 3-pointer
in the third quarter may or may not matter at the end of the game.
You've never heard someone say that you can skip to the last quarter of
the football game because every violent collision can lead to a game
changing event.
This is my love letter to opening weekend. Welcome back old friend...what took you so long?
KP
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