Football is BACK: Top Five Things We Love About Football
Ahhhh…what a time to be alive. It’s been 6 in a half months since I’ve seen real football on my flatscreen. College football returned two weeks ago…but it just doesn’t fulfill my itch. 75 to 45 final scores from a group of players I couldn’t name, who are at their 17th College stop from the madness of the transfer portal, and a subpar product on the field will never give me butterflies.
NFL football does. This morning I woke up with a true purpose. I wake up everyday to two beautiful awesome kids and a beautiful loving wife….but they’ll never make me want to drop blue cheese on my beard with a glass full of manly manly beer (seltzer) at nine in the morning prepping a full slate of bets and fantasy football nirvana. This is what we live for, these moments where a group of the most athletic and scariest humans on Earth get together and destroy each other’s brains for our entertainment. To show my love for the greatest sport on Earth, let’s list the top five reasons we love NFL football.
Ball is back baby!!
Top Five Reasons We Love the NFL
Having an excuse to get together with family and friends is the oil on life’s motor that keeps things running smoothly. NFL Sundays is a constant excuse to not only gather with family and friends….but gather with like-minded individuals who share a common interest, the duke.
The sport is just perfectly constructed. It is a symbol for life as a whole almost literally. War, family, work, and faith can all be bundled into one when describing the game of AMERICAN football. Although the importance of certain positions varies sometimes greatly (QB)…. a winning team is almost always as good as their weakest link. Every play called depends on the successful individual job of 11 men to achieve one singular goal each play. Same thing on defense, almost more so. If one guy slacks off….the play is blown. It’s a beautiful game when you think of everything that goes into it.
The American Stereotypes Tied Into Ball
The food. The capitalism. The blind faith behind one team or another. The toughness that the game should represent that it used to represent in the generations before us from the people in this country (not me). These are the American stereotypes that I love on Sunday. Ice cold light beers washing down a spicey crispy chicken wing while screaming ignorantly at a television screen to people that have no idea that I am alive is exactly what my Sunday’s should and will always look like.
The never ending “hope hamster wheel” is why I’ll always come back. Your team was awesome and made the playoffs? Sweet, you’re excited for next year because surely every single player on the roster will be paid and improve year over year.
Your team sucks and was the laughing stock of the entire league? Even better, here’s a 18 year old man child that should DEFINITELY be amazing, why don’t you pick first in the NFL Draft so you can save the franchise. There’s always something to believe in or hope for next year, it’s the beauty of it.
By far the best and classiest franchise in sports, being a fan of the Big Blue means much more than just liking a football team. It means you chose correctly. It means your football opinions are valid and you will find yourself on the right side of history. Similar to being against racism or sexism…it means you chose right over wrong, good over evil, and Big Blue over Jerry.
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