Football Sabbath

I did a bunch of reading today so I can fully appreciate the first full day of the NFL season tomorrow. I will miss some of the early game for church, but otherwise, it's football all day long, capped by the Giants-Colts evening game. Apparently the quarterbacks of those two teams are brothers. The media should really work that angle.
No Carolina Panthers coverage here tomorrow, as the local Fox affiliate will be showing the Seahawks / Lions game. Were the Panthers on, I would consider skipping church (1 PM games in the East are on at 10AM here).
K is out of town, so this is pretty much the only day of the season that I can get away with watching so much football in one day, knowing well that I will probably be watching both MNF games as well. Ordinarily I work out a compromise with her. The early game on Monday features the Redskins and Tony Kornheiser, so it's a much higher priority than the Raiders/Chargers matchup.
It's game time. Time to separate the men from the boys. These are the times when champions step forward, when sweatpants become acceptable attire again, and when football announcers stop sniffing glue long enough to utter some mindless macho cliches into a microphone. This is when the great ones come to the rise of the occasion. Happy football season, everybody.