Football season has officially begun, and it seems as though all of America is on their feet about it. Football season is an exciting, yet emotional, time of the year, but as a football fan, I wouldn't trade it for the world.
As the season approaches, the anticipation builds up. This feeling can be accurately compared to the feeling of Christmas Eve night as a child. When your favorite team is playing the next day, it feels as though all is right in the world.
Before you know it, game day is here. The day that has been anticipated since the end of last season. You head out to the grocery store as soon as possible, and stock up on all the junk food you can. Game day is tiring, game day will you hungry.
The game has begun. This experience goes one of two ways; either you're shouting because you're losing, or you're shouting because you're winning. One is the most frustrating time of your life, the other is the most exciting time of your life. Whatever experience you have, the supporters of the opposing team are always having the opposite experience, even though it's the same game. It's almost fascinating (key word, almost).
If your team is losing, the game goes by WAY too quickly. You sit there and think, "three quarters better be enough for you to get yourselves together!" Then two more quarters pass, and if your team is still losing, you generally begin to accept the fate, depending on how much the team is losing by. But you never truly and deeply accept the fate, you just accept it on a surface level.
Suddenly, the game is over, and you find yourself with a heart rate three times faster than your natural heart rate, with 40 water bottles surrounding you. But you survived, and that's a big accomplishment for such an intense experience. But then, about 5 minutes post game, you find yourself missing it. You sit there, and wonder, "what do I do now?" So then you decide to go to bed and hope you wake up on the next gameday.
Surely, it'll come a lot sooner than that first game of the season.
Happy football season, my friends.
