Sunday, September 7, 2008
Are you ready for some football?
Today starts the begining of the NFL 2008 season even though technically it sort of began this past Thursday when the 2007 Superbowl Champions the New York football Giants beat the Washington Redskins.
I was planning on watching the local Baltimore Ravens lose to host the Cincinnati Bengals, but the TV listings show that our CBS station is showing the New York Jets play the Miami Dolphins. Thus begins the obsurditiy of watching sports in the central Maryland region.
Perhaps it’s for the best. Normally watching the Ravens play football is a lot like taking four Excedrin PM’s and turning the thermostat up to 85 degrees. To say that their games are boring makes them sound more exciting then they really are. Watching a game where the final score is 9 - 6 might be fun to watch if it’s baseball. It’s not so fun when it’s football. It’s even less fun when, because of geography, the team you are rooting for is the one with only six points.
Update: I just checked the TV listings again and the Bengals vs. Ravens game is now showing up on the non-HD CBS channel. The HD CBS channel is still showing Jets vs. Dolphins. Watching non-high definition football like people did back in the olden times is like drinking warm non-alcoholic beer or eating a tuna sandwich made with fat-free mayonnaise.
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