Lost in the Silver Lining

Food for Football thought August 13, 2009

How Crazed Are You?

Well folks it is that time of year again! We are all soon to be awakened from our spring and summer sports hibernation to a new fresh and exciting football season! The story lines are endless! Will Brady regain his form, could the steelers make it 3 in a decade? Will the cardinals have the trendy post Superbowl loser meltdown season? There’s Cutler with the Bears, T.O. with the Bills. There are a few teams on the clock this season like the Cowboys, Eagles, Redskins and the Panthers. Is the Gap closing between the AFC and the NFC? The questions, story lines, possibilities are endless!

 I can almost smell the aroma of artificial turf baking in the sunlight! Its is almost like life starts over again! It’s a new season, a new opportunity, a new outlook. It is once again an opportunity to have our hopes lifted up and dashed upon the backs of men in pads, who are ‘simply going to work’ to pay the mortgage!

 Which brings me to another thought! This might be a shot in the dark but it has always interested ME and this is MY blog so I think I will just go ahead and talk about it, but does anyone else think that it is strange that our happiness and even sometimes sense of self worth is based upon an entertainment business? Look I am sure these athletes are in it to win… but at the same time they are getting a paycheck for this game at the end of the week and we are not, yet we seem in many ways to care more about the W’s than they do! We are hanging upon every thread of news that comes out of training camps, mini camps and OTA’s and all of the articles, news and predictions will eventually fall flat the minute that whistle blows for the first kickoff! It’s actually a pretty pathetic existence if you ask me! Our families already know that now we will officially be busy every Sunday for 6 months! The wife has already gotten every honeydew she could think of nailed down over the summer because she recognizes the fall is almost arrived, we have dialed up the fantasy league’s, ordered the game packages and have the drinks and dip on ice. Only to, in most cases, be disappointed after another season and feel like the whole six months was a waste and wonder why we even care and vow to never watch a football game again… in our entire life… but we will, and we are. Yes indeed it is a pretty sad existence, but to be honest I don’t even care! Yes from the outside looking in we might look like a bunch of myopic, Ten year olds hot and bothered for superman, spiderman, batman, and Miley Cyrus! But we are not outside, we are in… and it is fun in here and the football season is almost here, so get your retro jersey on, dust off the team hard hat and take the dip n salsa off ice… preseason kickoff is underway!