For those of us who’s world revolves around football, this is the greatest time of the year. It’s just like those days that build up to Christmas or a birthday or a vacation.
The term “two-day” conjures up all type of mystical things. When young men are honed over coals of the August sun and shaped into one team. It’s an object lesson where the sweat and tears of pain and exhaustion symbolize the weakness that is escaping the body.
It’s a man and whistle screaming out orders, as if he were building soliders, not just student-athletes who are playing for fun.
It’s this type of environment that has many a young men comparing military service to playing football. It’s this type of thinking that had General Douglas MacArthur,saying “On the field of friendly strife are sown the seeds that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory.”
No other sport is so connected to the entire the team. No other sport is connected to hard work and being physical. No other sport its about the mental game. No other sport can you have finesse and power and strategy all wrapped up in one.
That’s why we love football so much. That’s why we have guys living the dream in semi-pro football leagues into their forties. That’s why we watch indoor and Arena football. There are now nearly 100 teams across that play inside of arena. Its why we have about two dozen bowl games, its why the NFL draft weekend is a party. We love football.
And that’s why, I am ready for some football.
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