what is it about football?

when i was younger, i used to think that football was really confusing and really boring and way too violent. i'm not sure when it happened--probably some time when i was 12 or 13 and i finally bothered to learn what all these words like "down" and "quarterback" meant--i started to be somewhat tolerant of the game. and then somewhere down the line, possibly when i realized how much fun superbowl parties were, i started to really enjoy it. now it's pretty much a staple of my weekend, and this fall i actually found myself extremely excited to find that football season was starting again. i've always been a huge sports fan--basketball was and will remain my number 1 sport to watch--but i didn't think i was a football fan until i suddenly was. now i love it, which may have something to do with the analogies between the passing game and ultimate frisbee. though i'm sitting here trying to do some homework while the giants lose their lead. it makes me unhappy, and it really makes tom unhappy. then he yells at the tv.