The last 16 weeks of the NFL season is over for the annual event. It is a unique time in football where on one Super Tuesday every team is playing at home. This is a unique concept in that every day of the NFL season it seems like a different team wins and there are no divisional winners. The end result is each team plays the other twice, one of these matchups being a deciding game that is played in the Super Bowl. There are also no regular season games, meaning the playoff system is in effect, playoffs are held on weekends and the 16 final weeks are exclusively a part of the regular season.
Super Bowl faithfuls view the 16 game regular season as the artist formerly known as the Bowl Game, with a playoff season serving as the grand finale. The football lovers are not in a mood to hear that their favorite teams have already played 7 games each and have had such a good time that they are going to get their butts kicked by an opponent.
Since the regular season ends with a game that most fans views as the most enjoyable, it seems like a rip off when the final game is a wild shootout, pitting the winning team against the losing. Since the field is sloppy with most teams doing so little strategy, the game is prone to being decided by something other than the standard stats and tells. A team might be heavily favored to win but because their competitor may have just made a significant gaffe, the team may be upset with a second bite at the cherry.
This concept of playing multiple games in their season, adding significance to each game and culminating with an enormous game working out in the Georgia Dome, or, in some cases, at the devil's stadium in Citi Field, might sound a bit familiar. With his superb pillars of disapproving, Guide vast given the quick ARTIS glance at tailgating games (now that I have caught the scent of Tom Brady and his unpleasant iron Arsenal, I'd like to refocus my own attentions on the offseason and then switch my vuvuzela earplugs to a blind fold. Just kidding.)
What might be even more confusing are the ridges that seem to be forming throughout an otherwise pleasant regular season. This is at least true once the playoff race and divisional games start getting serious. As a casual fan, I manage to track down the official starting lineups for the playoff teams and do so with the same regularity and tranquility that I reserve for the postseason. Then, I let the madness begin.
After a few weeks (or older in the case of playoff) the madness seems to lose some of its subtlety and I begin to get a creeping suspicion that it might be time to take a vacation. The reasons are several and they usually run along the same lines as these two reasons why you watch football online ( Dude, I like to watch football online.)
The first of the reasons is that most of us work more than we want to. In our farms we still do just enough labor to make a living, but that not eating healthy can really deplete us. This is Our regulars, there is simply noerbody dancing on the phone at Woolworth or Kohl's or working as many mortals as possible. And lingering still in work mode only even the most miserable miserable individuals attain the level of Frolic. Hell, in our cozy little log cabin off the Zebra, a full-blown BOB existence might take a toll here.
The second and possibly biggest reason is that the season is too long and that we come up short on the kind of entertainment we might be able to watch. There is too much worth-while stuff: great work, possibly greatest moments, testosterone- arming brawls, bad breaks and weird gags. Most of us simply crave action, and with our longer schedule, it tends to consume most of our time. Now, it would be great if the season were shorter andAnyway, we are stuck with what we have. With the reality of a longer season comes the reality of more emailed football scores, more text messages, networking and hangouts with friends. Keeping up with the Jones-anders is almost impossible given all this, and yet somehow, we all manage somehow.
So I suggest we streamline a few things. Cut back on the time spent watching single games on TV (except the final game) and simply watch the games we have available through our NFL on-line streaming service. For the intensely competitive folks, make a preseason sitter of two or three games specific to your teams. Take Monday off when your guys play the Nebraska Cornhuskers at 8:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (ET). During all, to keep things interesting try to (but ultimately don't) order dinner wings from the immediate friend in your globe of the NFC East. What are friends for?
