An ode to football, college and pros, lamenting the two-week absence of gridiron action and waiting Super Bowl XLII with bated breath, trying to survive a football jones.
It wasn't until this weekend that I realized how much I'm going to miss football during the off-season.
In my capacity as football feature writer for Suite101 I've again become consumed with football, although my health impacted the amount of football-related writing I did during the season. And I need to apologize for my lapses during the season. I really wanted to better cover not only the NFL but NCAA football, which I really failed to do.
But, that said, I never realized until now just how big a football fan I've become -- again. As the assistant sports editor and sports editor of a small daily newspaper in Georgia I was focused on the Atlanta Falcons, the Georgia Bulldogs and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, in addition to the obligatory high school football programs we covered. Then I went back to news, worked overseas for the US Army and concentrated on a book about baseball.
Now however, I find myself at a loss to fill the weekend hours. Although I was a huge ice hockey fan growing up outside of Boston, my interest waned after we moved south of the Mason-Dixon line in 1998. And basketball never really captured my interest (I'm only 5'7' on a good day), so I'm vertically-impaired. Baseball spring training is still more than two weeks off ... and I'm going through football withdrawal.
Other than my official Super Bowl game preview for Suite101 I'm scrabbling for new angles to write interesteing Super Bowl articles on because I don't want to simply regurgitate the same old same old.
So my wife's actually spending the evening watching women's figure skating, and I'm going bananas. I just don't what I'm going to do after the Feb. 3rd Super Bowl. My word, what am I gonna do?
