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Old 07-26-2010, 04:12 PM   #1
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Football Season

I am soooooo ready for football season to start!!! I especially am ready for college football! Anyone else ready for it?
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Old 07-26-2010, 04:42 PM   #2
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I live in Chicago and am a Cubs fan... I have been ready for football season since early June.

DH watched NFL network all weekend and the replays from last years playoffs.

This year I am also looking forward to Hockey Season.
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Old 07-26-2010, 06:46 PM   #3
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I am a big football fan. I try to be a loyal Texan fan but Houston has always been a day late and a dollar short when it comes to its professional sports teams.

I have season tickets and the NFL channel and ESPN are always on in our house Mon, Thur, and Sun during the season.

I can't wait for the season to start!!
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We're ready!
I figure our Browns will be out of it by week 2. My Buckeyes will be painfully close -- again. We'll be Vikings fans by the end of the year.
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LOL! We were just talking to our server at Chili's tonight about this. We can't wait for football season to start! Go Gators and New England Patriots! Only 45 days until the first regular season game
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Holy moly am I ready!!!!! DH and I have the HARDEST time between the beginning of Feb and the end of August!!! We will watch NASCAR, but it is nothing like the hardcore insanity that starts with college football (and to a lesser extent NFL) season in our house. Three TVs, one room, plus the computer, every Saturday from 11 to midnight or so. We are obsessed. Every year I say I'm not going to let it completely absorb my life the way it did the last year...and every year it happens again. Oh well!

GO SOUTH FLORIDA BULLS!!! (especially on Sept. 11....)
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Being from michigan we are used to the many losing seasons of the Detroit Lions. I don't watch much pro football but I don't usually miss the MSU Spartans play when they are on TV.
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Yep, only a month to college football starts...college games are always so much more exciting, I think it's because the players are all trying to make it big.

Hopefully this is the turn around year for Texas A&M...but then, hasn't every year this past decade been the "turn-around" year?
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Yep, only a month to college football starts...college games are always so much more exciting, I think it's because the players are all trying to make it big.

Hopefully this is the turn around year for Texas A&M...but then, hasn't every year this past decade been the "turn-around" year?

I think winning is more important at the college level than it is at the pros. Same with basketball. The pros make all that money to play and I get the feeling they think its great if they win but if not, Oh well we just go back to our mansions and wait for next year.
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Went to the first day of Steelers training camp today!!!!!
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Huge football fan....I live in Charlotte, NC and just anticipating my Carolina Panthers to get to the playoffs!! Also big tarheel fan so I know we are going back to a bowl game this year!!!
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