Words cannot describe the excitement that surrounds fall Sundays. Dressing up, eating greasy foods and screaming at the television until Ryan Fitzpatrick listens to you and finally passes the ball to to Eric Decker for a touchdown is unbeatable. Drinking all day, either drowning your sorrows or celebrating your victory, forgetting that the day after Sunday is Monday, and feeling so insanely lucky if you actually get the chance to overpay to freeze your butt off with 82,500 other people can only mean one thing - football is back.
1. Being able to dress up in your teams colors and
face paint and not get stared at for looking ridiculous. You’ll probably even
get some high fives!
Pop-quiz: Guess which teams these cheese and chicken wing hats are for!
2. Experimenting with new treats in the kitchen that everyone is bound to love (most people are probably somewhat drunk so if it’s edible, it’s good).
3. It’s a completely acceptable procrastination method on Sunday. Did I finish my homework, no…but that can wait! It’s hardly the most important thing going on on a Sunday.
4. It’s the light at the end of the tunnel during a long week.
5. The random football fun facts and statistics the commentators come up with every week. Did you know that if you put your name on the Green Bay Packers season ticket waiting list you’d be waiting almost 1,000 years to get your tickets - just in time for Brett Favre’s next comeback! Who even thinks to compute these things?
But that's a welcome break from the cliche, "you can see the fight in [insert team players name]'s eyes," and "it's all about having courage, not fear" and "it's essential to get a good start because the first quarter counts just as much as the last" or my personal favorite, "[Team X] better keep [Team Y] out of the end-zone if they don't want them to score a touchdown!" No sh*t - that's how a touchdown is scored?!
Because I really thought you had to jump on the bouncy castle for the touchdown to count.
6. The eye roll you can give when people say “we played a great game today” and “our defense was incredible.” Are you on the team, I don’t remember seeing you out on the field?
7. Those tight leggings on those tight ends. Enough
said.
8. Making fun of the teams that are embarrassingly bad…sorry, Dolphins.
9. Being one week closer to the Super Bowl every game
10. Making ridiculous bets with your friends. Did I really agree to wear an Eagles swimsuit outside in December?
