With the college football and
professional football seasons bearing down upon us, there is a lot of hype
surrounding them. There is more than you think riding on the first game. What
will the jerseys look like, how will our defense be, who’s going to be the team
MVP this year, will we make a bowl game,
how will our quarterback fair against one of the best defenses in the league?
Those are all questions swirling around any football addicts head. There is so
much uncertainty before that day. No one really knows what the team has to
offer until they perform in a game. According to tvbythenumbers.com an average
of 60% of football watchers spend between 6 and 10 hours watching football per
weekend. Now this may seem like a lot, but that averages out to about two or
three games in a weekend.
For
some people football is what they live for. Every Saturday consists of them
going to the stadium hours before the gates open to tail gate and have a great
time before the game begins. Often going to a game is an all-day event that
some avid fans do every Saturday or Sunday for over three months. Many women
just, “don’t get it” and get very irritated with this addiction many men have.
However, according to tvbythenumbers.com 55% of women are found plopped on the
couch every weekend engaged in just about any game there is on television…just
like the 73% of men that do the same. For me, football is a chance to take a
break from whatever is going on and experience countless emotions run through
my body. One game can cause us to feel happy, stressed, excited, mad, scared, hopeless,
cheerful, or even anxious. You never know going into a game what you will feel
like, or how it will turn out which is one reason so many people are engaged in
the sport.
This
coming weekend an estimated 11 million people will be tuned in to just one game
alone. That number is mind boggling to think about. These players are either in
college or young adults and they have about 20% of the nation watching them;
talk about performing under pressure. With one missed play, or one bad snap a
player could lose the support of many fans. It is unfortunate that us as fans
aren’t more accepting of these mistakes, but when it comes to college and
professional football; we expect the best. (WC 410)
