Today was the first NFL sunday of the 2008 season. Â This used to be such a major event for myself. Â Usually my friends and I would all get together rig up 2 TV’s in one room and make sure one of us had the NFL Sunday Ticket and we’d watch football most of the day. Â Every weekend it seemed we were greeted by some special guest appearances.
We had many stadiums (aka: a living room) over the years, some great others not so (I always left with headaches from the TV bigger than the room).  The camaraderie always kept things fun, despite how poor the game on may have been. Â
Slowly but surely the past several years there has been a steady decline in faces on Sunday.  No longer must you call fives if you must get up from your couch seat if you don’t wish to be banished to the floor.  Nor any singing of the Ford Truck Man song nor the Ring of Fire (popular commercials from a few seasons ago).  Or any of the other nonsense that was to be had.
This year I went to Charlies to watch the early games with Wes and Jared. Â They’re both Dolphins fans and didn’t want to miss their game. Â It was cool, to see all the games on the various TVs. Â While the tradition is not as strong as it once was for me, it does survive. Â