Football Fever

Are you ready for some football??!!

This anthem must be sung in the voice of Johnny Pearson. MUST.

Fall arrives with a cool breeze, colorful trash, back-to-school, and the wonderful ballet of powerful men on the gridiron (gridiron… I hate that description). Time to pick your team and challenge your co-workers to a fantasy league or just a little office pool. Football is one of the most watched sports in America and I think it’s because unlike Baseball and Hockey, I don’t think there has ever been a strike in football. This shows the fans that they are the ones who are important. (Actually, there was one, in 1987… scab players were recruited from colleges and the pros eventually came back on their own and nothing came of the strike that year.
Damn, kills my point. Oh well)

Football is like any other pro sport, aside from beach volleyball, where the players make tons of money. I think the difference is that the owners and commissioner have set a good plan for drafting, signing and salaries to keep it all in check. All sides recognize that they have a good brand and it is in their best interest to protect it. Players do hold out but with such a short season, less than 20 games, if they hold out too long the season will be over and they will either be surpassed and replaced by their backups or have missed out on a whole season and then they aren’t as good and WILL be replaced by their backups.

The system is really set up to be a spectator sport. Most games are on the weekends and they’ve even got Turkey Day wrapped up as their football day. Fantasy has spread it to the few techies that weren’t into it and chics, well, a recent study found that girls like to watch football partly because the guys “are cuter”. And would you believe that football is the preferred sport viewed by women? Awesome! Pretty soon Kathy Ireland’s idea of kicking for a football team will catch on and we’ll see women around the world garner support for their player..

How can you NOT be excited that football is back!?
Go Vikings.