Labor Day arrived with fanfare as usual. Now September is upon us. Of course September always means back to the classroom for students and educators; but for me September means one thing:
THE RETURN OF GRIDIRON PLAY
Football returns with the high school and college season beginning over the Labor Day weekend; the NFL season kicks off the following week with a game played on the Thursday after Labor Day. Personally for me, the NFL season begins on the Sunday following Labor Day.
I am a football fanatic. I have favorite college and professional teams for which I cheer and jeer. Saturday mornings find me glued to ESPN’s Game Day show. The best part is always the last ten minutes when they have a guest giving predictions along with the sports announcers. I just laugh when Coach Corso will say “Not so fast” when he disagrees with a prediction. Of course I also love to see whose headgear Coach Corso will don for the day. Three times out of five I guess correctly, but there are times he does pull a surprise.
Like most fans of the game, I have my pre-game routine. I must wear my team shirt and do my pre-game cheer. I do a cheer for each safety, field goal and touchdown. There is a cheer I have for interceptions and sacks also. If my team wins, I do my post game cheer and if they are defeated a post game jeer.
Sundays I am usually glued to one of the pre-game shows on one of the networks. I have my favorite show (won’t mention the network in this blog but Terry Bradshaw is on that show). Like with college I will wear one of my teams’ shirts. Since I am a fan of an AFC team and NFC team, I switch off between the two. I have penned cheers for each of the teams which of course are shouted throughout the game.
One thing I hate when both my favorite NFL teams are on at the same time. I have to switch channels between the two. Don’t get me started when they play one another. Thank goodness it is once ever so many years.
Since I am such a vocal person when it comes to football…..my husband will not take me out in public to watch the games. (Most of the time I can catch my college teams on television and as for my NFL teams, he invested in the Sunday Ticket).
Could the reason be I would have to bring along my pom-poms, bad call brick and air horn? Guess he doesn’t want to be embarrassed by my antics. Recently I have learned there are others like me out in the world. One bartender told me there is a man who decorates the area where he sits with his team colors and puts a team poster on the wall near him. one woman comes with teddy bears reflecting her favorite team and a few people arrive bearing the ‘terrible towel’ for their team.
Perhaps I should just take a visit to this particular bar some Sunday to watch my team(s) and see how other fanatics enjoy their game.
Yes FOOTBALL IS BACK. Games can be seen on Thursday, both NFL and college; Friday nights, one can attend a local high school game or watch either college or high school on the sports channel; Saturday brings college games; Sunday afternoon and evening and don’t forget Monday night football. That leaves Tuesday and Wednesday nights for other television entertainment, but us football fans can’t have everything.
Until next time, cheer on your favorite team.
I have to run out to the drugstore now. My fingernails need polishing with the colors of my AFC team. Just hope I can find black fingernail polish; the gold is sitting on my make-up stand.
