Posted on 09/05/2012 1:33:25 PM PDT by mojito
....I have a jersey I wear when my team plays on Sundays. It's not a good jersey. It's a lame-ass replica jersey I bought because I was too cheap to spring for the real deal. But I wear it. And do I feel like a stallion when I wear it? I DO. I totally do, even though I look like every other middle-aged man wearing an NFL jersey he shouldn't be wearing. I feel like I'm part of the team, which is just absurd.
NFL fans walk around in team jerseys all the time, and even though most of them look like schlubs, most of them FEEL better than they do at any other time of the week. In fact, the fatter and more out of shape you are, the more powerful a spell the jersey casts over your ego. Maybe you look like a real player. Maybe the head coach will be in dire need of a running back in the fourth quarter, see you through the TV screen, and summon you out to the field to go rip off the winning 90-yard swing pass. That will never happen, but the jersey is what lets you dream about it, and often the dream is vivid enough to make a decent substitute for reality. Which is good, because in reality you're fat and your team sucks.
So if you have a jersey sitting in your drawer, I beseech you to take it out right now and throw it on. Don't apologize for it. Don't worry about your girlfriend telling you that you look pathetic. She doesn't get it, man. She doesn't understand the POWER of the jersey. But you do. You put that jersey on and you get yourself fired the f**k up, because the NFL season starts TONIGHT....
(Excerpt) Read more at deadspin.com ...
tell’em hell’s comin’.
I thought that I was posting this thread because the article was funny and was a good way to kick off the NFL season tonight.
You know, fun and funny. Watching sports, having a good time, rooting for your team. Enjoying an adult beverage. Or two. And yes, even wearing your team’s jersey, if you’re so inclined. Because it’s fun.
Boy, was I wrong.
But despite the sourpusses, I’m still going to enjoy the game tonight. And that adult beverage.
What game is on tonight? Is it on the regular channels such as ABC, CBS etc.?
NBC. 8:30 Eastern, 5:30 Pacific.
Thanks, I pick up NBC over the air so will watch it especially since there should be several Troy University grads playing.
“slow bullet scene”? What is that? When? Where?
Wow! As a former Marine and history buff for the last 40 years, I must admit to NEVER ONCE having seen a photo of a US military man in shorts in WWII. Even in the desert, I see the Brits and Germans in shorts, but no US men.
” You tell ‘em I’m coming... and hell’s coming with me, you hear?!”
I was a sports fan right up through September 10, 2001. Since then I’ve had a hard time working up any interest in grown men playing children’s games. Glad the rest of the country got over it, I guess. I didn’t.
Well, I would never do it. I will admit to wearing a Mariners ballcap on occasion but at least that’s not a professional team.
I don’t dare wear a NFL jersey. There are already enough people around the Bay Area that think I’m Wayne Walker that I could get into trouble.
Stevenson Electronics in Walnut Creek once charged a VCR that I bought to Wayne’s account.
Well, that is one.
On second thought, those are PT shorts — they don’t count.
Whaaaat? OK, I’ll grant you that I’ve only ever seen it in those deep south pacific island photos where you know it’s 110 degrees and 110 percent humidity, but they ARE shorts. Beyond that, besides at the seashore or in the boxing ring, can’t say I’ve seen an older picture of man showin’ leg.
“I was a sports fan right up through September 10, 2001. Since then I’ve had a hard time working up any interest in grown men playing children’s games. Glad the rest of the country got over it, I guess. I didn’t..”
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I find that quite sad.
You’re overpaying. They can be had for as “little” as $99.
Oh, and Jeff Garcia no longer plays for the 49ers, so throw out that jersey.
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