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How much does football love you back?
It isn't always about being there for their own team. The game, which gets its roots from English rugby, is hard to love because there are times when it doesn't return the love. Ironically you can love it and hate it all at the same time. I probably know this better than anyone right now. I love the fact that so many of our local teams are taking to the fields and playing the game like they helped invent it and at the same time watch my favorite team, Notre Dame, look like they have never even seen a football just after kickoff in each game. On Thursdays and Fridays I see passion and grace on the gridiron but on Saturday I see things and plays that just make me shake my head in wonderment. I take great pride in the prowess of the local football powers and relish the fact that we beat-up on all comers from the outside. That is probably why I have been able to cope with the season as a whole. I shudder to imagine what it would be like if the high school teams were as inept as the Irish. Chances are I would start being a NASCAR fan. Actually not, I don't think football could ever get so bad that I would be interested in a group of sedans making a series of left turns continuously. But back to football. There are still four weeks of high school games left, and if everything continues the way it is right now, there is a very good chance that four teams could be playing for state crowns. That would be a huge shot in the arm for this area. The same place where we are made fun of almost weekly because of bonehead decisions by powers that be. Be it in a daily newspaper or local TV channels. But come the first week of December and these same outlets will be singing the praises of our local grid teams, mainly because theirs will have fallen by the wayside. It is something to be proud of, as a whole area. We may not get alot of things right, but on Friday night our football teams, as well as our basketball, baseball and volleyball squads, will beat the other guy on a regular basis. Good luck to all of our teams as they take the field this week. Good luck to the basketball teams that start their seasons this week. One question.... Back last season I remember sitting around with some of my friends who are Alabama fans. I remember them after the Tide lost to Mississippi State and their remarks were something akin to this. "Losing to Mississippi State is unacceptable. Shula has got to be fired." Well he got fired. Fast-forward one year. The $4-million-man Nick Saban goes into Starkville and...loses. No one is calling for him to be fired, but it does bring up an interesting point. It will take the man some time to bring in his own players before the Tide will be on the level that their fans want. And patience is not always high on the list of fans when it comes time for their team to win or lose games. I usually have none, but a season like the one in South Bend will teach you loads of patience. Patience and the fact that our favorite mantra will always ring true.
"Wait til next year...." That's all folks........
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