I Love Football

The official pro football season started. I've always followed my Vikings but four years ago when my son started playing football, the game became our obsession. Every Sunday at noon, when the Vikes usually play, I would call up the stairs to my son, "Are you ready for some FOOTBALL?" and he and his brother and I would watch the Vikings play. Of course, we would also watch whichever game followed and then there was the Sunday night game and, of course, the Monday game and soon we started watching the college games on Saturday. My boys and I would make our Super Bowl picks before the season start and follow those teams in addition to our Vikings. Actually, the Vikings are more my team than my sons'. I think they are Viking fans too, but won't admit it.
My youngest son went off to college this year. I miss the time we spent together watching those games (and the baseball games, Olympic games, track meets, etc.). Sports talk is the way we communicate. We can discuss anything if we do it with sports. We've covered honor, endurance,
perserverance, morality, dishonesty, you name it, athletes demonstrate what to do or what not to do. Someday, when my son is a father and Sunday noon comes around I hope he'll remember for a moment the time we spent together over football and maybe even hear a distant voice in his mind, "Are you ready for some FOOTBALL?"