Football in January

These past weekends have been very busy for me. They have been full of basketball and homework. There is no time for a good movie, and that makes me mad. I have not had the chance to sit down and watch a movie since the beginning of the year, and I won’t get a chance to until February. This is because Friday and Saturday games every weekend leave little time for anything else. So I’m not going to write about basketball or school. I’ve had enough of those for now. I’m going to write about football.

Football is one of those sports that I get tired of watching after a while. It is exciting and fast paced, and can be very fun to watch if you are rooting for one team. But if you don’t care who wins the game, it can get down right boring. In recent years I have been intrigued by the playoffs because I like the Indianapolis Colts. They have gone far enough for me to watch football into late January, but not this year. This year they lost early, and my favorite team, Da Bears, didn’t even make it. So I was thinking that I would disregard football, and not even watch the Super Bowl, until the new season starts. I found that this was hard to do. I found myself sneaking away from what I was doing on Sunday afternoons to watch football. I would sneak away and watch two teams, the Baltimore Ravens and the Arizona Cardinals.

I watched the Ravens because I like Joe Flacco and I like the way they play defense. I know that sounds clichéd, but it’s true. I would rather watch a team make great plays defensively then watch a team make great plays offensively. It’s more exciting to see Ed Reed get an interception than see Hines Ward make a catch. But as they say, all good things must come to an end (I can’t believe I’m using this many clichés). I watched Joe Flacco’s inexperience catch up to him, and I saw the Ravens lose.

The Arizona Cardinals are still in it. They could possible win the Super Bowl. Amazingly enough, Kurt Warner is still playing. A hometown hero, it’s possible that he just lead a “hall of fame drive” to score the winning touchdown over the Eagles. That drive could have put a defining stamp on his jumbled career. He is a great quarterback, and he is leading a team the “Believes.” Its fun to watch the Cardinals play and I might actually watch the Super Bowl this year, because I now have a team to root for.