Are you ready for some FOOTBALL?

Woohoo! The football season is here! Well... the pre-season is, anyway :-)

Tonight at 7pm is our season home opener - Seattle Seahawks vs Denver Broncos.

So you know where we'll be tonight :-)

I wasn't always a football fan. It wasn't until Tim and I started dating that I got into it. It wasn't that I disliked it - I just didn't understand it and had no interest in it. But after it became apparent that we would still be dating into the fall of 2000, Tim saw fit to warn me that Sundays and Monday nights are off limits. Meaning, if I make any plans to do something on Sunday or Monday night during football season, I'd be doing it without him :-) Fair enough! Good to know the boundaries of the relationship early on :-)

But Tim was not just hoping I'd leave him alone on Sundays and Mondays - he really wanted me to share his enthusiasm for the game so he bought me "Idiot's Guide to Football". Great book! I read it cover to cover and by the end was even impressing Tim with my knowledge of the game.

Tim's been a season ticket holder for several years now, so we've gone to all the home games (I think we missed one in 2003 when we were on our Honeymoon; and I missed the one that Tim took my Dad to in winter of 2002, when Mom, Sarah and I went wedding dress shopping instead :-).

My initial impressions of the game after reading the book and going to the first home game can be summed up like this:

Violent Chess

When you get past all the helmet banging and bone crunching and grunting and sweating and all the gladiator analogies, there's actually a whole lot of strategy involved.

Anyway - Football season is here, and I'm excited!

Go Seahawks!

Post Game Update

Sigh... they lost...

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