Unless you're living under a rock, you know the Super Bowl took place this past weekend. And unless that rock is seriously able to block out all sound, you know that the LA Rams won the game. I'm not going to break the game down bit-by-bit because every analyst on all the major networks has already done that to a sickening level. Instead I'm here to ask a question, and the question is simple: now what?
The country as a whole loves football so much that it almost feels like a drug withdrawal the first few weeks without it in our lives. Even the Sunday of the Pro Bowl was dreadful because that game wasn't football, and there was nothing else worthwhile to catch on TV that day. So what do we do now that football season is over?
Personally, I'll be moving into full-time college hoops watching, along with some NHL, with an increasing amount of college lacrosse as that season picks up. Will I be doing that every weekend? No, well at least not to the level that I do with football. I don't know what it is but with football it feels like society has accepted the idea of people spending their Saturdays, Sundays, Monday nights and Thursday nights planted in front of a TV without any room for judgment.
Now that football season is done it almost feels dirty to spend a weekend watching sports from sunrise to sunset. At least until the first weekend of March Madness that is. But that's only one weekend. After that has passed it feels shameful to spend a day inside, adding to the permanent indent on the couch. It feels like I should be getting the house back in order, getting some work done in my yard once it warms up, or just doing more than spending the day in one spot eating a bunch of food that's terrible for my health.
I doubt I'm alone in asking the question what do we do now? There will still be plenty of NFL coverage; free agent rumors and signings, draft talk, and probably more proof of Dan Snyder being an awful human being. It's just not the same as having games to watch though. We're in a 7 month hangover, and now we have to figure out what to do with ourselves. Any got any ideas?
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