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Post Gridiron Partum Dissorder

September 2nd, 2008 Posted by: The Ticket Guy

So I’m watching the UCLA/Tennessee game last night when all of a sudden after a few huge hits I start to notice I’m feeling much better than usual. I’m laughing outloud, talking to the TV and throwing my arms up in joy as a third-string UCLA QB gets to work on a second-half, comeback, upset over the No. 18 Volunteers.

Then I tell my wife, “I think I’ve just gone to long without football and it was wearing on me.”

Before the game I was frantically searching for some football. I was thinking there has got to be some Monday Night Football on or something right? Well I flip to ESPN and what to my joy do I see but a special teams Volunteer getting leveled by a blindside punt return block.

I cheered. I laughed. I threw my arms up with joy and screamed, “Oh, ho, ho, ho what an f-ing hit!”

I know now that I was suffering from Post Gridiron Partum Dissorder. After January I usually slip into a funk. As the year progresses and I slip into the deep heat of the Arizona summer and there’s no refuge from the heat, activities slow down and there hasn’t been a real football game on TV in over 7 months, I can get pretty moody and have a hard time finding things I enjoy, unless I brave the heat for 18 holes or a mountain bike ride.

Well unfortunately there is only one cure for my dissorder; college football, which is quickly followed by the NFL regular season. If it isn’t for real it just doesn’t have the same effect and UCLA’s upset over Tennessee has me feeling of sorts again.

For those of you that have suffered from this dissorder as long as I have without knowing what was to blame, I feel your pain. But dread no more. I’m sure you have felt your spirits pick up with the onset of the college season. The only thing I can prescribe when the ailment is in full swing is a healthy dose of PAC 10 football followed by an opening day NFL barbeque with plenty of meat and beer and room to jump around in as you celebrate some of the most viscious hits in all of sports.

I’m not a praying man, but I ask that you all join me in a moment of silence after you read this post to thank it’s creator (Walter Camp) for the greatest game on Earth and its return again this year.

And next summer when things get a little tense around the house and you notice you haven’t been yourself for a while just remember this handy little montra, “NFL, Not For Long.”

All The Best,

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