Are You Ready For Some Football???

I love football! I do!

I look forward to football season every year and I get sad when the season ends.

Football makes me excited!

Football gets me pumped!

Football makes me giddy!

Football makes me cry!

*Sigh*

Really, I have. Not really cry, just gotten a little teary eyed; like, when USC lost a championship game to Texas, my eyes totally teared. Or, just the other night when my Dolphins fought off the Colts for a million long, harrowing, gruesome and glorifying hours and then, like the snap of my fingers, the Dolphins defense just let the Colts walk into the end zone and score their touch down that won the game, undoing everything WE had fought, screamed and played for that night. I got a little teary eyed.

I don't think all you non football fans understand the energy that one puts into a football game. We fans are probably just as tired and worn out after a game as the players themselves...unless you're a Colts fan and teams bow down and let you walk in the end zone. I tease, I tease... geez!

Sometimes after a game, I don't even have a voice! (Pillows accidentally get thrown at the TV while I'm uncontrollably shouting, "THAT'S NOT HOW YOU WIN A GAME!" My husband laughs at me! Can you believe it?)

I should be on the side lines because I KNOW my yelling and strategy ideas would make a difference to a defense that makes Peyton Manning (who I do love, by the way) look like a QB who doesn't even need to wear his pads (protective gear).

I'm being a little harsh on my Dolphins. I don't mean to be. It's just, we had such a good season last year. This year was supposed to be better! We got Jason Taylor back! He took a humongous pay cut to come back home! *Sigh* And now, our precious and wonderful QB is out for the season! Can I get a, "WAAAAAAAAAAAA!"?

I know where I got my football energy. This time, it is totally accurate to blame my father. It's my father's fault! When I was a little girl, he would get so excited about his Redskins that sometimes my lovely 5th grade art work would somehow get ripped off the wall in the fit of a fumble or the excitement of a touch down.

Sometimes, I would come home from school and he would open the front door singing the Redskins' song! Who knows their NFL team's song?!?! LOL!

If you don't like football you should really get into it. There are heroes (Jason Taylor, Ronnie Brown, Sproles, Troy Polamalu, Peyton Manning, etc) and there are villains (Vick, *gag* T. Brady- he makes my nose turn up...I disdain that person, etc). See, it's like a drama, action movie, soap opera all rolled into 3 glorious hours of action where you get to hoot and holler and coach and imitate plays (and drink if you want to!)...sometimes with out even leaving your living room! Who wouldn't want that? I just don't know!