You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy™
Football is back.
Hitting and touch downs and trap plays up the middle. Hail Marys and button hooks and the fumblerooski. Cheerleaders and mascots and tail gating.
Praise the Lord.
Hut Hut Hike!
It’s all music to my ears.
It’s Tchaikovsky to Tchaikovsky. It’s a bone to a dog. It’s a field of shrimp to a pod of whales.
Yummy.
Summer time is great time. Pools and vacations and kids out of school. It’s slow and hot. From a sports stand point it’s baseball, and baseball is played in slow motion.
Baseball is step out of the batter’s box and adjust your cup, re do your batting gloves, spit, re-adjust your cup, fix the batting helmet, step on the mound, look to first, check the runner. shake off the catcher, squint, put the glove up to your face, take a lead off first, and then toss the ball to first and start the whole monontonous thing over again.
Oh my God.
Somebody hit somebody please.
And last night it happened.
Football is back. Even if it is pre-season, it portends good things to come.
Football represents the changing of the seasons. It’s like leaves falling in Autumn. It’s like kids going back to school. It’s like a Kardashian getting married. It simply signals something new.
And even though It’s pre-season, it’s all good.
Preseason is about guys who will be waiting tables and changing spark plugs in two weeks, it’s still football. It’s about your favorite team taking the field, and gearing up for the start of the season around Labor Day.
From a flat screen in a bar, pre season football looks like football. Tonight it’s the Titans versus the Redskins and the Falcons versus the Bengals.
That’s the great thing about football. The players are hard to distinguish without a program, without an extreme close up.
It’s all about team.
I’m enjoying the mundane. A punt to a kick returner who runs it back against a field of carnivorous wolves just makes me happy.
Seeing a running back cut it back against the grain and break a tackle is exciting.
To all you football widows, sorry.
To all you fantasy football warriors. Get ready.
Football is back.
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