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What do you do to cope with the offseason?

WyoBuck

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So, I couldn't take it anymore. Almost 5 months with no football is almost too much for anyone to take. Tonight, I went to a semi-pro arena football game. Tri-City Fever vs Billings Outlaws. The Outlaws bitch slapped Tri-City. Yet, I left feeling empty and disappointed. It broght me no satisfaction. Yesterday, I went and watched the Rocky Mountain College football team practice. I feel like an alcoholic who has turned to drinking Nyquil. I wonder if I have a problem. I just keep watching the 2003 NC DVD over and over agian. I find myself thinking about watching football. I think a lot about when I can watch football again. I plan my schedule around watching football, and when the odd opportunity presents itself to watch LIVE football, like tonight, I will take it. It seems that the more I watch, the more I need to watch to be satisfied. Now, tonight, I resort to this. Its not even real football!. My wife is out of town, and here I am running around town trying to score some football! I was doing OK until my basketball ran out, and I had to stop doing baseball because it lasted too long and it made me sick.

Last week we went to visit our folks for Fathers day and take the dads to lunch. Well, I asked my Pops to rip all of his OSU DVD's for me, then that night, while everyone was asleep, I went downstairs and sneaked the 06' Fiesta bowl. I even thought about "borrowing" The Game 06'. It is getting out of control and I don't know what to do anymore.

I kind of feel like this board is a support group. What do you guys and Gals do?
 
Maybe you can find torrents for games you haven't already watched featuring next season's opponents. I did so a couple times last season, and it's a good way to get primed for upcoming games.

If you try it, be sure to post links. :)
 
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:biggrin: You guys are ALL wusses. We only had 9 games on the schedule, you only went bowling when you won the Big 10 and even then you might not go if you tied someone or you went the year before. The first game didn't get played until a week before school opened. A team could only be on national TV once a year and local TV one other time. So the Bucks would be playing Wisconsin in Madison and the game of the week was Kent State - Western Michigan in Kalamazoo. The band would only do Script Ohio at Homecoming and the Michigan game, and they could only do one. No double, triple, quadruple Script Ohio's. DVDs? Hell, nobody but the TV stations had a tape deck. The games were in black and white. Large wolves chased us through seven foot snow drifts across the Oval after the games. We had to catch squirrels and pigeons and cook them in our dorm rooms over cans of Sterno, which we often had to drink cause the bars would run out of beer. And you tell today's kids all that and they think you're exagerating.:biggrin:

Geezerbuck
 
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It's a LONG off season to be sure.... but I pass the time by:
1. Keeping a running talley of days left before the next game... and I remind myself that despite the fact that the next GAME isn't for X days (69 as of toda) practices start much sooner, and thus football season will start producing inforation for me to consume in about 40 days.
2. Watching my daughter play softball. Teaching my son baseball.
3. Fantasy baseball
4. Laughing at BoSox fans who give me kickme signs for being a fan of a better team :wink2:
5. That's about it, I guess....
 
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