Why Do We Crave Football So Much?
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by LastRow
Does the question really have an answer? Is it really explainable? With so many different sports out there, why as a sports culture do we love the pigskin so much? Our love and passion for football runs deeper than what we hold for our ball and chain, but why? How do weekends in the fall differ from weekends right now? Why has the pigskin overtaken baseball as America’s past time?
As a sports culture, once the Super Bowl has come and gone we all go into a five month long drought suffering from sports depression and really don’t begin to snap out of it to around this time of the year. See the Super Bowl is the only event where it doesn’t matter who’s playing for Lombardi’s Trophy…Hell, it doesn’t even matter if one is a sports fan or not, (isn’t that sick, not being a sports fan!) everybody comes together to watch. Thus, having the label an "unofficial holiday". The World Series can’t do this, neither can the two finals…NBA & Stanley Cup. And all of those other pasty, Waffle House sports…Well, they’re just that!
Even with the Bengal Jail Team, Pacman’s troubles and "Doggate" written and produced by Michael Vick, the NFL’s black eye, well, it all seems to fall on deaf ears. Should we hear it over and over and yes, it’s a PR nightmare, but honestly we don’t care…Perhaps bad choice of words there considering the dog fighting, but nothing can detour us from the pigskin. Now this is definitely a far cry from what the majority thinks about all the negative pub that baseball has received for their "Roid Raging" sport. So again, I’ll pose a question…Why do we tend to look past things on the football field, but ready to chop off Bud Selig’s head with an ax? Probably he’s a passive on with no grapes! So then can the NFL really do anything wrong to detour viewership?
The love just isn’t for the NFL game…Most, I being one of them, prefer the college game better. Could have something to do with those lovely co-eds? Actually, it could even be the high school brand. All over this country on Friday nights in small towns people gather around to cheer on the local football team. Not baseball, not basketball…The one consist in this entire genre are those pigskins that fly. It’s virtually unexplainable as to why we are a sports culture addict to them…If somebody knows the answer, well he/she knows the answer to a lot of questions, such as…"Why is the sky blue and the grass is green?" "Why are blondes more fun?" "Why do we prefer Playboy Playmates over gals pushing maximum destiny, but at three in the morning in doesn’t matter?" "Why does Beano Cook have eight chins?" "Why is it always Denny’s over Waffle House & IHOP at three in the morning?"
The one thing I do know is football is the only sport that anyone of us can sit on the couch all day watching as may games as we can on the boob tube. We crave for this and embrace it! No other sport allows for this! We don’t have a burning desire to watch four or five basketball games in a given day, (excluding the NCAA Tourney, which is a whole separate entity) hockey, well, do they even play five games a day? Nobody knows? Baseball…Well, forget that shit! Rather play touchy feely with those gals pushing maximum destiny!
So what’s the explanation? Can it really be explained as to why the sports culture revolves around the pigskin and fall?
