What football means to me...and hopefully some of you.
Are things looking up? How far we have come as an organization to go from an abysmal 1-11 start to ending the season on a 4 game winning streak giving hope for the next season. It started out rough, endless stories of disgruntled players, contract talks, and questionable fines, but in the end we started seeing results. With most of us calling for Eric Mangini’s head on a platter very early in his coaching tenure to thinking “Hey, maybe this guy isn’t so bad after all” it makes me think of how fickle we (myself included) are as fans. Our thinking as fans is in the here and now and less on future. But what if football disappears for a year in the future? Sports is a way to get away from whatever problems we have going on in our life. Divorce. Hey, did you see the Browns win today? Death. How about that Jerome Harrison? Work problems. They gotta pay Josh Cribbs! As long as there are sports most of us have something more to look forward to week in and week out. And now with talks of a possible lockout coming in the near future, it really makes me appreciate our 5-11 season. Appreciate that we can talk about the game and the criticisms we throw at coaches and players alike. Think about if that is gone? In my young life, I have not had a winter without sitting down every Sunday and watching a Browns game, through good and bad results. I’ve had great times with friends and family sitting and watching football mocking each other’s fantasy football teams. The NFL is a business, but not to us. It’s more than that. I can only hope, hope that issues get resolved and we do not have a blackout. Hope, that the NFL front office, owners, and it’s players can see things more in the fans point of view and make some sacrifices to keep the league from shutting down for a year. Even though I am thinking about this possibility more than a year away from the potential reality that is a blackout, I will continue to enjoy football while I can and appreciate what I have. Do the same.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment