It's not just you, football withdrawal is real...

[Meat-O-Rama]

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Loyola University Medical Center Dr. Angelos Halaris describes the effects this has on the brain, and offers tips on how fans can cope.
Halaris explains that when a person engages in a pleasurable activity, such as watching a football game, a neurotransmitter (brain chemical) called dopamine is released in a part of the brain called the nucleus accumbens.
When the pleasurable activity ends, the person is left with a feeling of depravation. It's similar to what a smoker feels when deprived of a cigarette -- except there's no quick fix like a cigarette for the football fan.

 

[Hopeuhavechange]

Yeah but you can get desensitized to it too. Back in the day I started out watching the football drug only on Sundays. Now I pull out old reel-to-reel tapes in the pinch that is the offseason and creep around youtube late at night just to get my taste of past gridiron glories. And that's only so that I feel "normal' again. Whatever that means. It's a viscous cycle I tell ya.

But I can quit anytime...

 

[CATCH17]

They should start College football later.

 

[DFWJC]

That nearly 3 month stretch between the Super Bowl and the Draft are really rough.

March madness helps (for me anyway) for some of that time, but not nearly enough.

 

[Hopeuhavechange]

They should start College football later.

That wld collide with the NFL. Start NCAAF slightly earlier. Whippersnappers can handle heat better.

 

[CATCH17]

That wld collide with the NFL. Start NCAAF slightly earlier. Whippersnappers can handle to heat better.

Im talking like next week, Springtime football.

But it would kill basketball.

 

[Hopeuhavechange]

Im talking like next week, Springtime football.

But it would kill basketball.

I can live with that.

 

[DallasCowpoke]

Loyola University Medical Center Dr. Angelos Halaris-

Halaris explains that when a person engages in a pleasurable activity, such as watching a football game, a neurotransmitter (brain chemical) called dopamine is released in a part of the brain called the nucleus accumbens.

When the pleasurable activity ends, the person is left with a feeling of depravation. It's similar to what a smoker feels when deprived of a cigarette -- except there's no quick fix like a cigarette for the football fan.

Sooo, it takes a PHD at a highly ranked University to convince some of this!?

Man... I can't wait for his next groundbreaking study/publication..."Bean Burritos Cause Flatulence".