Are you ready for some football?!?!?!

 

Yes, it’s finally here. As the Summer season slowly wanes into cooler temperatures, shorter days, and less people at the beaches, in comes my favorite time of the year. Second only to the Christmas season, the beginning of football season has to be, by far, the most exciting of all for me.

  It brings back childhood memories of  my Dad and his friends, sitting around, drinking beer. As a child, I always wondered what those old people were doing, sitting around drinking out of those funny looking cans, watching some people on TV running around and throwing such an odd shaped playball. I wondered not only what was in those cans, but why it always seemed that after the old people had had a few of those cans to drink, they got even more into the people running around on TV, and acted even more funny.  What was this obsession they had with the TV every Sunday? I mean, I could understand an obsession with my new bicycle with the cards that hit the spokes to made noise as you traveled down the road. I could understand the obsession with my new Daisy BB gun that you went around the neighborhood, shooting tin cans and strutting around like John Wayne. But an obsession with TV and a bunch of guys running around like crazy? Man old people are strange.

  Now, just a few, maybe quite a few :) years later, as an adult, I now understand the obsession. After learning all the terms as I aged, and fully understanding  this wonderful concept of football, Man I love this game!! It has to be, by far, the greatest sport in the world. Granted, I like NASCAR Racing, Basketball, and Hockey, but nothing pumps me up more than the Pre-Season heading into the Football season. NASCAR ,Hockey, and Basketball serve as substitutes for my Football addiction, after the Super Bowl and Pro Bowl are complete and I go into Football Withdrawal.

    Other than football, about the only thing else he watches is Baseball. He could care less about NASCAR, hates Basketball, and never really understood Hockey. For me, I never could get into Baseball. It just seems like such a boring game to me. It is good to have on during a lazy Sunday afternoon. It helps me take a nap. :) But, I am sure, once I get a little older, I am sure I will be an old man sitting around with a funny looking can in my hand fully into watching those guys hit a small white ball with a funny looking stick.

 

This season is going to be great I think, as I am Miami Dolphins fan. If my team can show me just a little bit more of what I saw last season, I believe we can go All…….The……..Way!!  Coming back after a horrid 1-15,  2007 season, we rallied to an 11-5 2008 season, winning our first AFC East title since 2000.  Let’s go Fins, 2009 is our year!!!

  In closing, make sure you watch the game tonight if you are a fan. And if your not a fan, watch anyway, you may catch the fever. :)

  Man I Love This Game!