Sunday, September 07, 2008

Football Back


The first Sunday of the new football season kicks off today. Here's what I had to say about the great game of 22-men-trying-to-knock-each-other-over a couple of years back:

One thing about football is that it helps you mark the time. From kickoff on Sunday afternoon, to the last whistle on Monday night, all you think about is football. You eat it in the form of chilli and cheese. You drink it in the form of Budweiser beer (unless you had a particularly hard Saturday night, in which case you drink football in the form of orange juice and aspirin). You sleep it in the fitful rest of a man who took a lousy quarterback in the fantasy draft. More...

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