General Information

http://www.patriots.com/

http://www.nfl.com/

Not that I personally subscribe yet, but I'll get there.

My first order of business is to start in on the rules. I noticed while watching the playoffs in 2014 that there was a ton of small meta game clock management stuff that I didn't even know existed.

This got fun. Remembering back to a child, the action was the thing you wanted to see. The clock was your enemy and that stopping it probably meant that you weren't playing hard enough. Having played soccer, it wasn't a think you had liberty to deal with; the clock kept ticking.

I'm interested in fun meta rules like this - might make watching games more like chess. Seeing the strategic elements in a game like this might make it more appealing.

New Seasion

The superbowl is well over. Spring training is starting for baseball.
Seems like a good time to get back into this project.

Right now my first major obsession is getting to know the team I'm going to be ruting for.

Secondly, I'm going to have to do some digging to actually determine which Patriot jersy to purchase and wear for game days.

I need to take some time and do some of the ground work that I was originally planning to do for this: basic rules, some other information, team history, numbers, etc. I guess I'll get there when I'm good and ready - or when I have time to actually start digging.

The other angle is that I can start with smaller posts - focused with links and such.

I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to tackle the full boat of "what makes football so mesmerizing to Americans". It's a big ask for someone with no real sports background other than little league and mites soccer.

We'll get there.

A few days in....

After a few drinks at the bar the other night, a friend of mine, Nick Fox thought that this idea might be also suited for a podcast. What better way to experience how noobish I am with sports than to hear it.

I agreed. We're going to try to start something up. It may turn into a Vlog, may just stick with a podcast. Either way, the links and subjects will be posted here so that you can follow along, comment, like, and share to your heart's content.

Sports reporting: Where do you get your news?

Not looking for slander, but I'm currious: Where do you get your sports news? Why do you go there for it!?

Answer in the comments - link to sites, or shows.

The begining - I don't get it.

This blog came about from a series of events in my life that has led to this moment: coming to terms with why I don't enjoy sports.

I work in the gaming industry. One day, after a brief tirade about how the Red Soxs were doing that particular season a gentleman I work with stated "If you call yourself a gamer, you have to love sports, because of the rules, the obsticles, and the elements encompassed therein." I'm paraphrasing, but the basics was "You like games with rules, you should like sports."

It then dawned on me: I could care less. I always have had a problem really getting into sports. Highschool teams were so-so, College struggled, but even there the fanatisium about teams, college sports, pro sports, football, baseball, the Olympics, the men in my Fraternity were hooked; they couldn't get enough. They talked shop, bought jerseys, even did fantasy football/baseball before they were trendy (ps: I totally agree that Fantasy Sports are just DnD for Sports Nerds...geek out my friends!)

Even being completely surrounded by people enjoying the sport, Superbowl for example, 99% of the time, I could care less and would have rather been doing something else.

So, to really get into this, to really get a the heart of what makes people enjoy this, I have to dive deep; I have to commit to a team for a whole season.

The Goal:
Familiarize myself with the sport of Football
Watch every game - blog a reaction

Team:
New England Patriots (cause, like, they're down the road and stuff).

I'm not going to get into Fantasy leagues or anything just yet, but I am going to change the way I think about weekends.