Sunday Football

There's something that I just love to do, which is to watch football on Sunday. I'm a big fan of the NFL, and I was very happy when the players and the owners settled about the contract disputes and just started to play the game. I think that all of the teams' owners just needed to suck it up and pay the players, because they will eventually make much more money then they have to give to the football players. It's lucky that the National Football League (official name) could get its players to play, not like the NBA, who has still failed to start their season. It is a good thing that the player's contracts were renewed so that we can have a proper football season.

We usually go to my Uncle Chris's house to watch (he has a big TV, and chips). Seriously, his TV is FREAKING huge, much bigger than ours, plus it's high def. The only problem is that he has three huge great Danes, and the Danes' tails are always knocking over our drinks and stuff, but the food is good and the TV is big so it's all OK. You would be surprised with how much people will put up with just to watch football on a huge TV.

When there is a break between the early and late games, my family, my uncle's family and my uncle's neighbors' family play touch football, which is really not that fun. Usually, the teams are family vs. family, Woods vs. Thomases, but this week, the parents decided to mix it up. All of the Thomases' kids were mixed up, and all of my family's kids were mixed up, and we squared off. To put this in perspective, these games are usually about as interesting as PE football games, and most of the time, I just want to get back to the TV.

I have had a chance to visit an actual NFL game. It was about three years ago, and we went to Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Bay, Florida, home of the Buccaneers (my favorite team). The stadium is nothing like it looks on television. The men's bathrooms are dirty, the food isn't all that good, there's a bunch of sleazy scalpers, but I still loved the experience. It's just fun to be part of the stadium experience, feeling the emotions of the whole stadium as you scream and root for your team to GO FIGHT WIN!!!

So if anybody is still reading at this point, I encourage you to try out watching a football game next Sunday, or Monday or Thursday. They can be very exciting and fun to watch. The Super Bowl is perhaps the biggest sporting event in the world, and draws millions of viewer’s world wide, all of whom are fans of football. Let's add to the ranks, we definitely need more football fans in America. So go ahead, plop down on the coach, flip on the TV, and watch some good old fashioned fun for a Sunday afternoon.