How important is the NFL to you?
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To put it in perspective...
I've been a Cowboys fan for 36 of my 41 years. I have always loved watching the team play, but it's gotten more important to me since my accident. I can't play sports anymore (I was a three-sport athlete), but I can still watch, and I watch a lot. Dallas Cowboys. LA Lakers. Anything UVA.
I don't generally watch the NBA if LA isn't playing, but I get League Pass and catch most of the Lakers' games (until the regular season gets boring, and it always does). I'm a Virginia alumn and huge fan of all things UVA. I have season tix for Virginia football and hoops and I attend some baseball games. I watch a ton of ACC football and basketball, and a lot of the college revenue sports, in general.
My real passion, however, is the Dallas Cowboys. I get really bummed when the season is over, but I tide myself over by recording/archiving/rewatching games and following the team closely year round. Love the combine, the draft, all the scraps from free agency and OTA's. I live here during the offseason, catching all the info and other chatter that the superb Zone posters provide. I start getting stoked when July rolls around. I catch all the practice chats, press conferences, interviews, radio shows, etc, once training camp starts. I watch, record and rewwatch preseason games (I pay the NFL for the priviledge of watching the games streamed live). Preseason is fun for me. I love watching the young and new players develop, seeing them perform, diseecting the roster and looking on as the future of my team takes shape. I'm a Sunday Ticket subscriber of 14 years and never miss a game. When the team loses I'm in a foul mood for a week. I avoid all sports TV and radio, as well as these boards (more often than not) and get really bored and ill-tempered. My girlfriend roots hard for the Dallas Cowboys.
But I'm also an NFL fan. Sundays during football seaason are kind of my holy time. Everyone who knows me knows that football Sundays are off limits. I begin in the morning by watching the crap on ESPN and NFLN and then flip over to FOX at noon. I usually watch three games: 1, 4 and 8, catching one highlight show or the other between the afteernoon and night games. I always watch the Cowboys, of course, and usually the Skins or the other NFCE teams. If there's no NFCE games, I default to whichever game looks most interesting, flicking around as scores change and rooting for whatever's best for the Cowboys.
So, to answer the question...
The Cowboys and the NFL are a huge part of my life. During the season, my mood hangs ridiculously on the fortunes of the Dallas Cowboys. But the Cowboys aren't nearly everything. I'd probably get a little depressed if the League suddenly collapsed, but wouldn't any fan? I'd probably see a lot more movies and plan a lot more stuff for the fall and winter months. And my girlfriend would be a lot happier, and if she's happy it's all good!
My girl, my family and my dog.
Health.
America.
Cowboys.
UVA sports.
The Lakers.
That's prolly the order for me.
I've been a Cowboys fan for 36 of my 41 years. I have always loved watching the team play, but it's gotten more important to me since my accident. I can't play sports anymore (I was a three-sport athlete), but I can still watch, and I watch a lot. Dallas Cowboys. LA Lakers. Anything UVA.
I don't generally watch the NBA if LA isn't playing, but I get League Pass and catch most of the Lakers' games (until the regular season gets boring, and it always does). I'm a Virginia alumn and huge fan of all things UVA. I have season tix for Virginia football and hoops and I attend some baseball games. I watch a ton of ACC football and basketball, and a lot of the college revenue sports, in general.
My real passion, however, is the Dallas Cowboys. I get really bummed when the season is over, but I tide myself over by recording/archiving/rewatching games and following the team closely year round. Love the combine, the draft, all the scraps from free agency and OTA's. I live here during the offseason, catching all the info and other chatter that the superb Zone posters provide. I start getting stoked when July rolls around. I catch all the practice chats, press conferences, interviews, radio shows, etc, once training camp starts. I watch, record and rewwatch preseason games (I pay the NFL for the priviledge of watching the games streamed live). Preseason is fun for me. I love watching the young and new players develop, seeing them perform, diseecting the roster and looking on as the future of my team takes shape. I'm a Sunday Ticket subscriber of 14 years and never miss a game. When the team loses I'm in a foul mood for a week. I avoid all sports TV and radio, as well as these boards (more often than not) and get really bored and ill-tempered. My girlfriend roots hard for the Dallas Cowboys.
But I'm also an NFL fan. Sundays during football seaason are kind of my holy time. Everyone who knows me knows that football Sundays are off limits. I begin in the morning by watching the crap on ESPN and NFLN and then flip over to FOX at noon. I usually watch three games: 1, 4 and 8, catching one highlight show or the other between the afteernoon and night games. I always watch the Cowboys, of course, and usually the Skins or the other NFCE teams. If there's no NFCE games, I default to whichever game looks most interesting, flicking around as scores change and rooting for whatever's best for the Cowboys.
So, to answer the question...
The Cowboys and the NFL are a huge part of my life. During the season, my mood hangs ridiculously on the fortunes of the Dallas Cowboys. But the Cowboys aren't nearly everything. I'd probably get a little depressed if the League suddenly collapsed, but wouldn't any fan? I'd probably see a lot more movies and plan a lot more stuff for the fall and winter months. And my girlfriend would be a lot happier, and if she's happy it's all good!
My girl, my family and my dog.
Health.
America.
Cowboys.
UVA sports.
The Lakers.
That's prolly the order for me.