The Demise and Rebirth: Inside the Mind of a Football Fanatic

You sit in front of your television set and watch the Super Bowl like it's the last thing you will ever see. You scream and holler at the screen as if the players can hear you. When halftime hits, instead of watching a band from the early '80s perform for paid screaming teenagers, you talk to your friends about the halftime adjustments your team should make. As you sit there and replay that interception the middle linebacker should have had early in the first quarter, it hits you. This is it. The Super Bowl is the last official game of the season. I mean, you have the Pro Bowl, but who actually watches that anymore? Your favorite player decided to opt out of playing because of that “lingering” hamstring injury. College football ended almost a month ago and you realize that all is lost. No more football for the next six months. In the life of a die-hard NFL fan, six months seems like a lifetime. Then you start to go through withdrawals. You watch SportsCenter replay the big game ... (link)