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Whoever decided football season is Fall/Winter is a saint

I don't mean the New Orleans kind of Saint. I mean, service-to-your-fellow-man kind of saint. Minnesota winters are long, cruel, and gray. Wendigo psychosis becomes a real threat. And we know that things won't thaw out until April at the earliest.

There's that eerie time in late August/ early September when we feel the chill starting in the air, the first Canada geese are heading South, and kids are back in school, and we realize, "That's it. Summer's over." To some residents of Northern states, that is a very depressing realization. I admit freely that it would be for me too, but accompanying the shorter days, there's the promise of Football. High school, college, and NFL. An embarrassment of football riches. Across the country football fans are getting revved up to see what this year will turn out to be. Which rookies will break out? Who will be underdogs? Who's on my fantasy team? Who's making the playoffs? Who's winning the whole thing?! You are united in giddy brotherhood with thousands of fans across the nation.

And suddenly having to fish around in the hall closet for your windbreaker doesn't suck any more, because it's a windbreaker with your favorite team's logo on the chest. Oh, yeah, baby. It's football season.

I am not exaggerating in the least bit. Football is the one thing that makes winter tolerable. I think I would have moved south years ago if there was not anything else to help get through Winter. After the Superbowl and Pro-bowl, there's a bit of a lull, but then we can play March Madness with our coworkers as a diversion, and then there's the draft buzz in April. By May, the disappointment of the end of the football season is tempered by the return of the sparrows and the lengthening days.

Thank you, football pioneers. Like central heat and electricity, you helped make the Frozen North suitable for human habitation. Even Green Bay. Or so I am told.

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Good post

Its hard to think of life without football

by ChiTown08 on Oct 24, 2009 2:44 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

right on

i dont know what i would do if i couldnt watch football.. be a loser soccer fan i guess, wouldnt that suck?..

Dont leave the north juperee, i moved from il to the foothills of nc 2 years ago and i miss that snow like crazy. you never know what you have till you get a quarter inch of it a year and it melts within an hour….. :(

by GtM on Oct 24, 2009 3:14 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

I doubt I'll really ever move south

I lived the first 23 years of my life in Oklahoma, then on to Minnesota (10 years) via Sweden (2 yrs). While the mild Okie winters were nice, I did not care for 105 degree summers.

Plus it’s good to get white Christmas every year. :)

May the wind be always at your back, and may your placekicker have icewater in his veins.

by juperee on Oct 24, 2009 3:26 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

Don't move south

it’s overrated. If I didn’t have to be here I wouldn’t be. Two seasons almost hot and rediculous hot. It was actually nice today it was 65, that I can deal with, the 90 a few weeks ago was a bit much for October!!!!!!!!

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by Ditkavsworld on Oct 24, 2009 6:02 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

This summer has been brutal

but it still beats the alternative. No waking up early to shovel, to scrape the ice off the windows, to let the car warm up. No stepping out of the car and falling on your ass because you hit black ice. No more hearing that god-awful cracking, grinding crunch of snow under foot that you can’t get out of your head by the end of winter. We go for months down here without the temp dropping below 75 (on a good night), and it’s miserable after awhile, but I can’t imagine going back for anything.

"The time has come to get deeply into Football. It is the only thing we have left that ain't fixed." - HST

by JerBear50 on Oct 25, 2009 3:27 AM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

you guys get it easy

It’s already freezing here in Canada. Never gets double digits (Celcius) so 50 Farrenheit would be a nice day, at night it’s 0 or below so under 32
when I come to Illinois it feels so much warmer. In the winter we average like 5 farreneit

by DaHamsta on Oct 24, 2009 6:53 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

But at least you have football.

No, wait…nevermind. Sorry.

May the wind be always at your back, and may your placekicker have icewater in his veins.

by juperee on Oct 24, 2009 7:20 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

How did you become a Bears fan?

Are you originally from Illinois? And what part of Canada are you in?

Minnesota gets plenty cold, even down to -40 at times in January (-40 is the same in °F or °C). But what I imagine must be far worse in Canada is the darkness. Ugh. That’s what got to me the most in Sweden.

I hope they broadcast plenty of football for ya up there. Keep warm!

May the wind be always at your back, and may your placekicker have icewater in his veins.

by juperee on Oct 24, 2009 7:28 PM CDT up reply actions   0 recs

I lived in Illinois of a while and it gets dark at around 4-5 in the winter, so it gets dark pretty quick but it’s not crazy. It gets -40 maybe 3-5 days a winter. I get all the games but no Redzone. CFL sucks though, it feels like I’m better than those guys and 3 downs in horrible.

by DaHamsta on Oct 24, 2009 7:45 PM CDT reply actions   0 recs

I Agree With This Post 100%.

I find Hockey sooooooooo boring for some reason. Football is my favorite sport and I can’t wait for the weekends.

by Gesiakob on Oct 25, 2009 10:49 AM CDT reply actions   0 recs

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