Maybe I'm Wrong

I love football. Mostly.

It's not a sport I can just...watch. Unless I have some interest in a particular match-up, you can more than count me out. Football itself is pretty boring. Run around or hit people. Then stand there a while. Run around or hit people. Then stand there a while.

Rugby spoiled me. All action, all the time. You've got to call plays on the go, players switch from offense to defense and back again...you can't sit and think or predict what could happen. Game-play doesn't stop. And these problems with "hard hitting" in football now? It's because there's little to no technique, compared to rugby. When you don't have layers of foam and plastic protecting your body, you can't just throw your weight around willy-nilly. Well, you can, but you'll probably have a short career, because you (or worse...another player!) will get hurt, and it won't be pretty. That's not to say rugby players don't hit hard. We do. We just hit far more efficiently. Why hurl my body at someone when I can use their own momentum against them by wrapping their legs?

Also, scoring a try is way more exciting than a touchdown. With a try, getting the ball into the "endzone" (we call it a try zone) is just the first half of the battle. An opposing player can still keep you from touching the ball down (you'd think we would have touchdowns, and football...something else). Plus, the extra point kick? We don't just let you set up right in front of the uprights. If the other team let a try through, they still may have redeemed themselves by making it really difficult for the scoring player...if the try is scored off to the far left of the try zone? The extra point attempt must be made from that side of the field as well.

Don't get me wrong, I love watching football. Under certain conditions. If one of my teams is playing, I'm all in. If I'm watching with friends? Hell yeah. Especially friends who make bomb nachos (<3 you Kenny!). In-person? Always fun. But parking in front of the TV to watch game after game? Not so much. I have better things to do.

On a completely unrelated note. The world would be a colder place without ramen. It's about one of my favorite foods. It cooks fast, it's delicious, and you can put other things in it. Every bowl of ramen can be different! Though usually I'm too lazy to do that....when I make ramen it's usually because I'm too lazy to cook real food.

Or because I'm freezing. After two hours at home wearing way too many layers of clothes and huddled under piles of blankets, I was still cold from the football game tonight (we won, bt-dub :D). There's pretty much no possible way for me to dress warm enough to just stand around in the cold...warm clothes are only useful if your body actually produces heat. If I'm not moving around? I pretty much don't. All the insulation in the world couldn't have kept me warm tonight. Ramen, on the other hand, did.

Rugby, football, ramen...God I love college :D