Hello folk this was me yesterday, and will be me most sundays until February:
Sitting with my iPad on the NFL whip around show for highlights, a big game on TV (Yesterdays early game was great! Steelers/Jets was so much fun) and Red zone on my compy (I'm not like most people the ads dont bother me, I pay 5 bucks for redzone so thats akin to a streaming app with ads, but I understand why people dont like it) There was a great game in TB/ATL too, and ill get to that BONKOS game on sunday night.
This was the game I was really waiting for for obvious reasons:
This was a beautiful watch, and the score wasn't even that close, there was an amazing catch at the end of the game. Everyone who knows me, everyone who doesn't know me knows I Live for the Green Bay packers, I have been a fan since around 1988.
To sum this up, Pro Football is ENGRAINED in my personality. I love pro football, to the point of Ill miss playing board games on sunday to watch football (and to a lesser extent Monday/thursday and I did miss the brazil game this year but thats only because that wasn't my team) Ive always joked that you would have to drop a nuclear bomb on my house to get me to stop watching football, and even then that would probably not be enough. I said it yesterday and ill always say this, it is SO Good for my mental health which generally is below average to average.
The world sucks, there are idiots in charge, bad things are happening all around, and at least this week I am not going to my tuesday night game group. So this meme here is me:
I might be a bit dramatic here but I need football season to help me distract from everything and more on that in a second)
So after last nights CRAZY BONKERS OMG game with the Ravens and the Bills which from a neutral standpoint was SO MUCH FUN TO WATCH (i also got 17.50 in amazon credit but thats another story) I basically said something I thought was innocent, I said something along the lines of "How can you not love American football" on bluesky. I go to bed and after getting my first gut punch (not being able to go to board game night tomorrow) I saw a reply to my post from a person i like 95% of the time along the lines of how the rampant system of domestic violence and how it keeps black men down, and CTE..
That was such a freaking debby downer moment, Yes the NFL is not perfect, no organization is, neither is any sport, Not MLB, Not EPL, Not NBA, and not the NHL (more on that in a second as well) why post this on someones moment of joy? This reminds me of the ever loathsome phrase "Bread and circuses" and I ABHOR that term. I can worry about the packers WR drops AND the idiot in the white house.. i can be joyful about Micah Parsons trade AND be worried about the decaying of church and state.. If i thought nothing else about current events I'd be a bigger nervous and anxious wreck that I already am. There is a subreddit I joined about six months ago called I hate sportsball, and whoo boy some of those posts are just sad, people dont want to see people have fun or focus everything on whats going on...... ugh.
Now I have another friend, same boat for the most part decent person most of the time except when it comes to football. He is worse, like hates everything about football to the point of calling them the national felons league (Which is another thing), he always complains about football being on Thursdays and "They should stay in their Saturday and sunday lane" meanwhile TNF has been a staple for 20 years not including Thanksgiving, and Ive said this to him on multiple times. But here's the thing the man is everything about the NHL, believes they can do no wrong, same with the injuries thing. This man has actively decreased my liking of hockey because of the negativity. (hes also made sad reactions to a lot of my NFL posts which is annoying AF)
I guess i'm just ranting and while I cant control what people say on their own social media/IRL stuff its just exhausting. There are a lot of things out there I dont like and people do like. When people talk about them i just either nod or just ignore them. I dont like debby downers and people who suck the joy out of stuff I like.
I guess i'm just tired. Today has been a nuisance and that was the final straw. Ill watch MNF (And cringe a bit cause its vikings/bears)
Just shut up and let people enjoy things FFS.
Keelah Se'lai.
Me.
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