Slowest sports day of the year?

[MTK]

Originally Posted by djnemo65

Yeah, we are on the verge of the British Open. For me the day after the Superbowl is a bittersweet day. On the one hand, with both pro and college football being finished for months, I feel this profound emptiness. On the other hand, I suddenly have all this free time, it's as if I go from working two jobs to one.

I enjoy following basketball and the PGA Tour, but those are really just diversions for me. Football is a way of life.

My wife always says that we have a completely different weekend schedule during the season vs. the offseason... it's so true. During the season she knows that Sunday revolves around the Redskins. If it's a 4:00 game that means we can't go out to dinner and we have to order in instead. She's a real trooper, I've got to give her credit for giving me that.

After the season I totally agree about the bittersweet feeling. On one hand I'm depressed that the season is over, on the other I love the fact that my Sundays are suddenly wide open.

[jdlea]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

My wife always says that we have a completely different weekend schedule during the season vs. the offseason... it's so true. During the season she knows that Sunday revolves around the Redskins. If it's a 4:00 game that means we can't go out to dinner and we have to order in instead. She's a real trooper, I've got to give her credit for giving me that.

After the season I totally agree about the bittersweet feeling. On one hand I'm depressed that the season is over, on the other I love the fact that my Sundays are suddenly wide open.

My girlfriend doesn't even try on Sundays during the season. Especially not since I moved in with my new roommates last season. Sundays have become: get up b/w 11 and 12, crack at beer at the 1 o'clock kickoff, watch football 1, 4, and Sunday night, go to bed if we're not too jacked up after the Sunday game...maybe play beer pong. And it's only going to get worse now that we're getting Directv and Sunday Ticket with 2 HD tv's in the living room...I can't wait!

[mredskins]

Originally Posted by jdlea

My girlfriend doesn't even try on Sundays during the season. Especially not since I moved in with my new roommates last season. Sundays have become: get up b/w 11 and 12, crack at beer at the 1 o'clock kickoff, watch football 1, 4, and Sunday night, go to bed if we're not too jacked up after the Sunday game...maybe play beer pong. And it's only going to get worse now that we're getting Directv and Sunday Ticket with 2 HD tv's in the living room...I can't wait!

Enjoy these days, because one day you will have a wife and kids and days like that one exists. Not to say there isn't a lot of fun in having a family but sitting around for a whole day watching football isn't going to happen (assuming you are not a dead beat father/husband).

I watch the Skins then go out and play with my son for the remainder of the day, at this point I would not trade that for all the NFL tickets and HD tvs in the world.

The older my son gets the less I want to sit in front of the TV on a nice Sunday afternoon watching football. I still love the Skins but as I get older they are not such a pull on my life anymore. At some point he will enjoy watching football too and that is when it will be real fun to watch the Skins with my son rooting on.

[jdlea]

Originally Posted by mredskins

Enjoy these days, because one day you will have a wife and kids and days like that one exists. Not to say there isn't a lot of fun in having a family but sitting around for a whole day watching football isn't going to happen (assuming you are not a dead beat father/husband).

I watch the Skins then go out and play with my son for the remainder of the day, at this point I would not trade that for all the NFL tickets and HD tvs in the world.

The older my son gets the less I want to sit in front of the TV on a nice Sunday afternoon watching football. I still love the Skins but as I get older they are not such a pull on my life anymore. At some point he will enjoy watching football too and that is when it will be real fun to watch the Skins with my son rooting on.

I totally agree, once I have kids, I'll feel a lot less like sitting on the couch all day. Pretty much football season is the only day I can sit inside all day and do nothing now.