Oh thank Jesus, here we are on the precipice of the pre-season. During this past off season, I've learned a few things. Let me share:
1.) The World Cup is an annoying time for fans of professional American football because football is football and soccer is soccer. If you want to call soccer football, do it somewhere else. That'd be like speaking French expecting us all to understand because originally, a lot of English words came from French. Well that's all well and good but water is not called Eau, and soccer is not called football. This should not be complicated.
2.) As an additional point about the World Cup, its basically a time for the countries of the world to get together and act like Americans do almost every day. I've observed that most Americans are pretty proud of our country despite its errors and mistakes. And that pride is frequently on display in a flashy and un-ignorable fashion. The WC is a time when all other countries just act like that too. So in essence, Americans walk around like its the WC all the time. I can see why this confuses and upsets other countries. Don't plan on changing, but I have a new understanding of this now.
3.) My son is probably the coolest person on this entire planet.
4.) My son also is not a fan at this time of abrupt yelling and screaming at the TV. We're going to have to slowly introduce him to this.
5.) My daughter is due when the Saints have a bye week so I should be able to get back in fighting shape by the Lions game on Oct. 19th.
6.) Patience and rational behaviors are not something that I will be accused of having en masse. Ever.
7.) There's always a way to keep up with football news during the off season. It can be a bit dry at times, but with the trades and camps and all that jazz going on, you don't have to resign yourself to watching baseball if you don't want to and simply cant get into a game that doesn't have a clock.
That's about it for now. We're starting off this preseason with the St. Louis Rams so that'll be an interesting scrimmage. Here's to wishing no injuries on either team.
PS - can we talk a minute about the Sports Illustrated edition that came out most recently with one of the Eagles on the cover? So my boyfriend was excited because it was the Eagles, and when he was done with it he throws it down on the counter and he was like, "You know, you'd think that with McCoy on the cover there'd be like a good sized article in here about him. Nope. 2 pages. Maybe. However, there is 6 page expose on Jimmy Graham". I looked, and it was true. It was basically an article about how awesome hot damn Jimmy Graham is and how its a competition with himself to see what position he's more awesome at and if he can out-awesome his awesomeness with even more awesome. God bless the Saints. For the first time this season, Bless you Boys and Geaux Saints!
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