It pains me to say it, but I really don't enjoy watching football like I did as a kid and a young adult. It could be the stage of life I'm in now, but I just can't get with the pro (or college) team sports that focus so much on big money and the power of me. It is almost an oxymoron to call it a team sport anymore with the mega salaries and the revolving door of players at all positions.
Sports I do enjoy watching are tennis and golf. I've always been a fierce individualist and watching athletes like Tiger Woods and Roger Federer dominate the competition not only physically but mentally really makes watching entertaining and inspiring.
All that being said, I do pay a little more attention to football these days because I participate in a fantasy football league with some buddies from college. We pick players for all the positions in football and then garner points based on the performance of the players. Now rather than watching a specific team (although I still like the Pittsburgh Steelers as I did as youth), I root for statistics. The computer tracks all our teams and our stats and gives us a forum to give each other a hard time about the upcoming games and the past games.
My kicker (I don't even know his name) kicked 6 field goals yesterday including a 50 yarder giving me 31.35 points!! A banner day for a kicker and it helped my fantasy team win opening weekend.
