All my life I’ve been a big-time follower of football, baseball, basketball and, being from Minnesota, I’ll even watch a hockey game over say, raking the leaves, shoveling snow or any other menial chore on the ol’ honey-do list.
The funny thing is people always say they enjoy sports because it gives them a release for all that real world crap, but I know people, and at times I’m their leader, who get so damned worked up about a stupid sporting event that it can ruin their whole week. Especially in football.
Football is great because it’s a once a week thing during the fall and winter where you spend all week getting fired up for the big game and if you’re team wins it's a feeling of euphoria even though you had no part in the game planning or action taking place on the gridiron. You're on the computer checking every website, blog, photo, audio and video highlight you can get your hands on, reaffirming what you already know..."my team's better than your-r-rs, my team's better than your-r-r-s!" or at least better than one team that particular day. It can get so out of hand for some obsessed fans, even the porn on many people's history log gets pushed off the drop down menu if your team wins. (At least I've had friends of mine tell me that.)
On the other hand, if your team loses on a Saturday, if you’re a college fan, or Sunday if you like the NFL…may the powers that be please be with your family, your co-workers or your friends. An intervention hopefully isn't necessary, but I'm sure they've happened.
God gave women their...oh, how shall I say it...cycle and I believe he gave men the great equalizer in football (Patriot fans excluded), except that it can be worse for men in that during fall and a good chunk of winter it’s on a weekly basis. Women are much better equipped to handle the chemical imbalances that come with your favorite team losing a game, and simply put, men aren't.
“Wow, Kurt, what’s eatin’ you? You seem a little ornery today...Ahhhh, that time of the week. Vikings/Gophers must have taken one on the ol' chin.”
Sure, football season does end and we substitute basketball and hockey for a couple months until the start of baseball season and then that keeps our interest until the NFL draft and then mini-camp and then training camp and then we're off again barreling down the tracks on the emotional roller coaster and chemical imbalance that is the football season.
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