Football....America's New Pastime

So.

I have an addiction. Football. I don't understand it, and I have no idea where it came from. Perhaps, I'm just too American; I already was a mutt, an average Joe. So, football is in my nature, maybe even my veins, and DNA, and it is where I came from. Now that is a little over-dramatic, but has some worth and truth in this addiction I hold.

So, it could be that I'm too American. Or, maybe. How I view it: as I find myself obsessed with finding insights into the psychology of people, the society around me, and mainly, myself, I attach my self to this entertainment that shows the truest and most pure emotion we have. A kind-of split second, and war-like anger, but also a calmness in battle-type of mood. Putting humans in a win or lose situation, that we, in this society, have deemed the source for domination, and ultimately, our pride. This sport not only wages humans against other humans, its the biggest, fastest, and most fearless ones. And thus is our entertainment. And, yes, thus is our New Pastime, and symbol. A game that puts man against man, and celebrates the forces that lie within, a symbol for a society that has done the same with human life and the entire world alike.

I love football. I love the emotion. I love the pride. And maybe that is my downfall.

Pride comes before the fall.

unfortunately, I got that out of Boondock Saints, not the Bible, or more in terms, God's Word.

But still I love this obsession, and we, as Americans, can sympathize; at least I hope so. Or you're un-American. Ha, ok, I got off course. And, no, I would never believe such a hypocritical statement as formed by one's loose opinion.

College football is something where you see this great source of pride, alum and current students come to join together with other current students to cheer for something they all, as one, can relate too. How many times can we as humans say that we gathered for that large of a cause. I've gathered for larger, namely, DC for God. That was years ago. And cynics and other various vices have found their way into my belief structure, and heart and soul.

Ah, as for that, I will be back on the issue, as football is something that I use as a form of entertainment, but see so much more that is seen through the game of football and its affects on society here in America.

So, selah.

And.

happy new years. and, prosper like it wasn't 2009