I love football. I mean love. The start of the football season means fall is coming. It means I belong to something, a big club of men who also love the sport. We will talk to perfect strangers for hours about our beloved game of football.
For me, it’s like a ritual. I love college football more than pro football, but the pros will do in a pinch. Any football will do in a pinch. Anyway, on Saturdays I know that ten o’clock brings out College Game Day on ESPN. I get to watch the ESPN crew assess all of the major games in college football and make predictions of winners and losers. So, you wake up early, go to the gym, shower, eat and sit down for a few hours of college football. We only want to be interrupted by our friends also talking to us about sports.
You know how you girls talk with your friends about Desperate Housewives while watching at the same time? Football provides us that outlet.
For you, Saturdays and Sundays are great days to shop, run errands, and get together with friends. This is not baseball season or basketball where they play dozens of games. This is football where every game counts. So, don’t ask us to miss the game. You simply have to work your way around this. Don’t ask us to change. Accept this because we’ve been doing this since we were kids with our dads and we look forward to doing it with our kids. So, what do you do?
Deal with it! You just have to make it work. Figure out what games are important. Not all games are created equally.
There are some that we have to watch and others we can read about or listen to on the radio. So, ask us which ones we really have to watch and plan accordingly.
Take this time to do things by yourself. You’ve been dying to look at new fabric to recover the chairs. Do it while we watch the game.
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