Are You Ready for Some Football???

It’s the most wonderful day of the year.  No not Christmas. Football Season Opening Day. Wait a minute, did I just say that?

You betcha.  I was never REALLY a fan.  The first game I watched was the first Super Bowl.  At my parents friends house because I had to.  I was the only kid there (no wait, there was one little girl). We got shoved into a spare bedroom to play and the game was the only channel that came in. I still have residual feeling for the Colts and the Jets. Did I get that right?

Then there were the 1972 Dolphins and by then I knew the rules and we had cable (I think).  I still see the Dolphins on TV and think of Larry Czonka, Mercury  Morris and the rest.

High school was okay,  but I was in the Band, not on the field and had a progressive elitist attitude towards the Jock Squad.

Since I lived in Monterey, I picked the Raiders when Dad and I bet on football. His team was the Pats. The bet every year was if your team won the Super Bowl, the other person owed you a hat.  We also did the Red Sox and the Oakland A’s. I lost a fortune in hats. Fuck you Tom Brady.

Three years ago my son convinced me to play fantasy football.  In the interest of good parenting I agreed and picked all the players with cool names. I got my ass handed to me in my hat. Year two, I wised up and really tried to draft a good team.  I was  so proud that I got Brady in the draft.  Then he broke his footie 17 seconds into the season.  I panicked to get a QB onto the field and wound up with two and a illegal formation penalty that screwed me for the rest of the season. Arrrrrg!

Since then, I’ve got the knack of fantasy football.  Then 2009 showed up.  I bought Madden 10, for the Wii.  I bragged to Son Number One.

Who said, “You should’ve got the real game.” Fuck….  I played Madden10 on a friend’s Playstation3. “Fuck…sigh…I got the wrong game.”

So THIS year I have both Madden 11 and Playstion3.  It features Gatorade sippy cups during time outs and shit.  I was shopping in Wal Mart this weekend and noticed that they were selling the Gatorade sippy cups.  I must of stood there for 10 minutes. Should I get one?  Should I get two for the kids.  Would that soothe the Kitty Cats Opening Day spanking? Maddon11 is evil.

I was going to post pictures but then realized the NFL would spank my ass for it.