Start of the 2008 NFL Regular Season

Our little Philadelphia Eagle.  (Only because I don't have a SF 49er outfit for him.)

Tonight football season started.  The Giants are playing the Redskins right now and so far it is a pretty good game.  Watching the Giants and Eli Manning brings back memories of last year's Super Bowl when the Giants were supposed to get rolled by the Patriots and they came back to win in the closing minutes.  Boy was that a fun game.  Tonight P. and I got some sub sandwiches, dressed Pete in his Philadelphia Eagles outfit and have been watching the game going on 3 hours now.  Of course we have done a lot of other things while watching the game but we always come back to the t.v. 

How do I feel about football?  I love it.  I love the SF 49ers no matter how terrible they have been over the past few years.  I am not a fair weather fan.  I am a Niner for life.  Jerry Rice is my all time favorite player.  Then Joe Montana, then Steve Young.  I thought about naming our son Nolan after the 49ers coaches.  We didn't, obviously.  I don't get to see many games living out here in MI.  We mainly get Detroit, Chicago, Green Bay and Cincinnati games which I don't get too excited about.  I used to get excited about Green Bay but not since Brett Favre went stupid.  Football to me means chips and dip, chili and cornbread and reason to curl up on the couch with a blanket and Dr Pepper.  But it also means fall and winter are around the corner.  It's a sign of the end of summer and the coming of my least favorite time of year, winter.  Not just any winter, winter in MI.  So tonight is bittersweet for me.  A start of something good and a start of something not so good.  My 49ers won't be good.  They won't be good for a long time but that's ok.  We'll hang in there.  Off to watch the RNC, it will help put me to sleep......  :)