Breaking news - the lockout is over. I mean, it's good news. It really is. Football is fun, the NFL is fun to watch, and Fantasy Football is one of the most entertaining games ever created. But really...If the NFL didn't come back, if the owners and players were stupid enough to dig in their heels and cost each other billions of dollars (seriously, it would be in the billions), I wouldn't have lost sleep.
I am over Terrell Owens, I am over Chad Ochojohnsoncinco, I am over Jerry Jones and Roger Goodell and Ben Roethlisbearwneaiouwbaslmbkjabaiobesgayger. I just don't care about professional football. For me, it doesn't hold a candle to the college game. There's nothing...NOTHING like college football. I don't even know if I can explain it. The game day experience, the passion, the emotion, the high's and low's, the trash talking....the history, my god, this history! College teams have been playing organized football for more than 100 years.
I don't know if I can even put my finger on it...maybe it's because you are so invested in a team because you went to school there, or your entire family went to school there. It doesn't matter if your team goes 0-12, you still live and die with them. You still have faith that next week is the week.
Here's the thing. I know that college football is big business. I know that schools and teams and coaches and players cheat, and it sucks. I went through it with my team, with my beloved Huskies. Doesn't matter though. I still rooted just as hard, cared just as much, and went up and down with them. Just like all Ohio State fans will, just like all the USC fans have done, and just like all the Oregon fans will once that other shoe drops. And by the way, Oregon, it's coming...you guys are going to take it right up the tail pipe. Don't think that Mark Emmert, former University of Washington President Mark Emmert, won't jump at a chance to absolutely BURY you if it presents itself.
Yeah - the resemblance is quite striking.
There's nothing like waking up on Saturday, packing up Daniel Baker's truck and heading down to Montlake. There's nothing like getting that tent set up, getting that grill fired up, cracking open that first Busch Light and settling in with all of your best friends for an entire day of food, drinks and football.
So NFL, welcome back. I'm glad that there will be fantasy football this year. I'll see you on that first Saturday in September at Husky Stadium. Or Martin Stadium. Or The Horseshoe, or The Big House, or any other iconic stadium throughout the country. So yeah, I'm ready for some football.
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