Collective Conscious

Through years of living with a football focused family I have picked up a general idea about what goes on during a football game and what a football team consists of.

1. There are two major facets of a football team, the offense and the defense.
2. The Quarterback is almost always charming and terribly good looking
3. The offense are the guys who run with or catch the ball, when it is thrown by the charming and good looking Quarterback. Also on offense are big men who protect the Quarterback
4. The defense are the guys who try to flatten the other team's charming and good looking Quarterback.
5. There are also other parts of the team, called special teams. I am still foggy on this but I think the kicking team is part of special teams. I am not sure, but remember I am still learning all the nuances of the game.
6. A touchdown is 6 points, then the team that scored the touchdown then has the opportunity to score and extra point, by kicking the ball which if the ball goes where it is suppose to will provide the team with a total of 7 points.
7. Football is complicated.
8. People can and often do get really hurt playing this game.

So there are some of the things I knew going into my football education. There is a whole lot more for me to know, and I can't wait to find out what I have been missing!!

I know balls!

Just ask me I know. I can identify a volleyball, a baseball, a basketball, a tennis ball, etc...

I know the equipment and I can, at a glance, identify which sport has just flashed across the very large tv that dominates my house (not to mention the many smaller tvs that dot the other rooms).

So you could say I know sports.............sort of.

I can usually (but not all the time) tell you if you are mistakenly talking about a baseball team when you mean a football team, and frankly 9 times out of 10 I can wow the socks off my son, but he is only 9 years old.

However, I am learning. The first thing I have learned is that I really like to watch football (regardless of the fact that the unrequited love of my life is a soccer player.......well now he is a coach, but that isn't a topic for this blog).

Over the past year I have become a big time football fan, which I think may worry my father a little. He looked a little distressed when I started the preseason countdown in July. I don't know why he should be worried, he is a football maniac with a very strict and focused dedication to the Denver Broncos.

My father's obessive love of the Broncos started long before I was born and has NEVER waivered. The name John Elway is spoken in hushed reverent tones when my father is near. There is nothing fair-weather about the man.

My mother is a Broncos fan as well, but she is more of a fan for my father's sake. Although the time she met the GREAT Elway she was bold enough to give him a message for then back up quarterback and now Head Coach of the Houston Texans, Gary Kubiak. She said " Tell Kubiak that if he is ever in ______ (our home town) there is a woman there who will have an affair with him!"

So those are the people who raised me. He loves the Broncos and she thinks Kubiak is hot. I do love my parents.

My ex-husband is almost as bad as my father, but about the Chicago Bears. In fact just a few months ago, after many very lovely years of divorce, I was helping him purchase tickets for the Seahawks/Bears game, because the dink is computer challenged.

Again I digress, which I do with much regularity, my point is this, I am surrounded by football fans, and I really love the game as well. This blog is really about my education about the sport.

Did I mention that I have found a team that you may not think is worthy of my adoration and obsessive fan girl behavior, but I do................I love you Big Blue!