Dear NFL,

Just what in the name of all that is holy do you think you’re doing holding a double header set of football games starting at 8:30 on the East coast?  Are you trying to hide some deep dark secret in the second half of the late game?  Do you think that those of us who hold Monday Night Football to be a sacred part of our fall don’t have jobs on Tuesday morning?  Do you really think that advertisements played at 1:30 AM are worth it?

Stop making me choose between your sport and sleep!  You will lose eventually!

Daddy J. Bear

OK, I know it’s a tribalistic exercise in watching millionaires play a child’s game.  I know that there is little to no social value in professional sports as practiced in this country, and that all I’m doing is making the rich richer.  And I know that watching it on TV makes me into a couch potato and a raving lunatic at times.

But football’s back baby!  Starting next month, my Sunday, Monday, and Thursday dance card is full.  I will re-acquaint myself with the family in February.

I’ll be back after I go stock up on beverages, snacks, and grillable meat.