Some unusual venting

Want to know what really puts a bur under my saddle? No? Well too bad as this happens to be my blog.

It amazes me how during the super bowl and college bowl games, a nation of non football fans seems to rise around me. These people do not experience the gut wrenching agony of following a team's ups and downs through out the season. They do not invest any time or effort in to following statics, rankings, or anything that would classify them into the mildest category of a football fan. Yet when "the big game" kicks off, they take some misguiding information from bias sports commentators and develop an opinion as to "who the better team is." This is always the team picked to win by the previously mentioned bias sports commentators. And when that team wins, they gloat and rub it in in the nastiest, most undignified way.

Why is this so nasty and undignified? Because they have not earned an opinion in the matter. Watching one game a year does not qualify you as an expert on the matter, nor does it give you the benefit to rub it in as those fellow rivals that battle it out with you week after week, season after season. To some, it's a stupid boring game only worth watching when "the commercials are good." To others of us, it is a fine art and only those of us who belong to the family of true football fans earn the right to rag each other.

Now, with that said. No, I do not believe you should root for the Cardinals and Kurt Warner JUST because he is a Christian. But unless you fall in to that fine art appreciating, bear it all season I previously mentioned, do not criticize my sadness over Kurt's loss.

Kurt, you had an amazing year. You were written off as long gone and in much need of retirement, and yet you guided your team to the Super Bowl. No, your team did not get to come home with a ring. But you did prove to be one of the two best teams in the game by simply earning your way into the Super Bowl. I love to see Eli Manning play, but Kurt will always be my favorite quarterback!!