By Sharon Barta Well ladies ready or not here it comes! Football season! One of the most watched, most physical sports out there (besides maybe mud wrestling)! Whether it be College, High School Pee Wee or Professional I can bet your significant other is probably watching it and so should you! Here’s why: Oh, but first the answer to last month’s golf trivia question. It is Llanymynech Golf Club! (Bet that was on the tip of your tongue!) A place where you can tee off in Wales, play a few holes in England and finish in Wales.
Now some basic rules about professional football. The game is played in all kinds of weather on a rectangular shaped field with a goal post on each end 100 yards apart. Some of you may remember the Freezer Bowl of 1981 between the San Diego Chargers and the Cincinnati Bengals. The wind chill factor was a balmy -37 F. (I have a feeling that game wasn’t played in San Diego!) There are a few teams that do play indoors such as the Indianapolis Colts and the Detroit Lions. Speaking of the Lions I bet your significant other hasn’t heard of the 50 year curse put on the Lions. In 1958 the Lions traded Bobby Lane to the Pittsburgh Steelers after he had given them his best years! He was so upset that he cursed the Lions and said they would not win a championship for 50 years! If you follow the Lions at all you know too well about their humiliations the past 50 years from accidentally trading their #1 draft pick in 1974 to Alex Karras being suspended indefinitely for gambling and even how their great running back Barry Sanders was willing to pay the team millions not to play him even when he was just shy of breaking Walter Payton’s rushing record!! They didn’t even win a game a few years ago! (Sorry it’s tough being a Lions fan. Forgot myself for a minute!) Now back to the rules.
