It's Good To Be In the Game

College football fans, I know you’ve done it. You’ve rushed to the store the day EA Sports puts out its latest version of NCAA Football and before even playing a game, you check the roster. You edit player numbers and names. You create that sought after freshman that isn’t in the game. And maybe, some of you put yourself in the game.

It’s ok, it’s fine. That is perfectly normal no matter what your better half has to say.

Because we, the true fans of fall Saturdays, know that getting your fix in between Saturdays…I mean from Saturday to Thursday night or Friday night (it’s getting easier to survive between Saturdays isn’t it? That’s another topic for another time) is vital to our survival. We want everyday to be football Saturday.

That’s why we love to create our own coaches, build our sleeping-giant ACC team into a national title contender every season with unheard of three and four-time Heisman winning players. Make Chapel Hill what it was truly meant to be, the mecca of college football!!

Sorry, I got a little distracted by my own legacy built last season which will continue this year.

You get the idea, and those of you that know what I’m talking about have the same feeling. For us, the passion doesn’t turn off with the last batch of highlights (local and national) early Sunday morning. We wake up wanting to replay the games.

That’s why this game, nay…this saving grace, let’s us escape to college stadiums and campuses whenever we want. It helps us through the week. We know how important it is in the off season when you can right the wrongs of the year gone by and make the Tar Heels the BCS winners they should be!

Sorry, got caught up again.

You’ve done it. You’ve put yourself on the sideline, on the field and in the game. The feeling of Saturday is why we play, and it’s why we watch. It’s why we love those precious days so much.

It will never replace the real thing. But it gives us a fix. So what’s wrong with having a football Saturday on a Tuesday afternoon? Not a thing my friends. Who wants a game?