Another Football season is about to descend upon us. The time of the year that football fans over the nation live for. In millions of homes, fans will grab their Nfl teams jersey and cap and favorite brew and plop down on the sofa with friends for someone else inspiring afternoon of Sunday football. Or for those who can categorically afford the mark prices, it's someone else season of tailgating parties, hanging out with 60,000 other screaming fans cheering on the hometown team, and Monday morning hangovers. Of procedure there are some who could care less about all this 'who struck John' football stuff and wonder what the big deal is? I've known a few women in my time who categorically detest football because they know for the next sixteen Sundays they'll be hard pressed to get the husband to do anything on Sunday afternoons. How is it that football has become such a fixture in American culture?
Growing up in Baltimore in the 60's, I was an avid fan of the Baltimore Colts. They played football in an old horseshoe shaped place that they called Memorial Stadium. They had great teams during those years and won a concentrate of championships. A few years earlier they played in what many population call the 'Greatest Game' in the 1958 Championship game against the New York Giants. For me, I think it's rather silly to call any one game the most because there's been so many great games straight through the years. What that game did achieve was capture the attention of thousands of population over the nation, and pushed the Nfl to the next level.
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The football ritual itself reminds me of a gladiator spectacle. population dress up in crazy costumes, sit out in all kinds of weather, act like raving lunatics to watch a bunch of 300 pound beefy boys bang each other around for the next three hours. No one gets killed at the end, but I consideration that near the end of the game when the outcome has normally been decided, the camera's will often pan to the owner's booth, where you'll get a shot of the flourishing owner. With a small imagination, it's not difficult picturing the owner giving a thumbs up or down to conclude the losers fate.
The game itself reminds one of a movie from the Lifetime Channel. You have the good guys and the bad guys. You have the drama of the ups and downs straight through the procedure of the game. You also have the umpteen industrial breaks along the way.(By the way, if you categorically want to see the game from a dissimilar perspective, go to one. The constant arresting of the game for industrial breaks will seem so out of place at the game. You're sitting there wondering why are they stopping the game now? At home, you're so accustomed to this, and you use this time for running to the bathroom, refrigerator, etc., but at the game you're just sitting there mental sufficient already, get on with the game). Anyway, the game winds to it's conclusion, and if it's categorically a good production, it will come down to the 'two small drill', where the home team pulls the game out at the very ending. Just like our protagonists in the movie. normally the good guys win, but not always.
After the game, the population gallivant home to their homes or neighborhood bars to discuss the day's events. normally there's a game on Sunday Night Football where they can continue to get their fix of football right on to the early morning hours. The next morning is rough for the die hards, and leads one to recall the statement about hoping that you don't buy a car that was made on Monday, and why. In any event, this goes on for the next sixteen weeks, and if your team is lucky sufficient to make it to the playoffs, all bets are off.
Yes, the National Football League, or as some would say, the National Felony League has made itself a part of American life and culture. It's a huge firm that millions of fans live for, and spend dearly to be a part of. As for me, I can no longer bring myself to sit in front of the boob tube for hours on end on a Sunday. I'd much rather get out and take a walk in the woods instead. Besides, I can no longer feel the Monday Morning payback as opposed to being a Monday Morning quarterback.
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