A Girls' Priorities

For those of you who know me well, you know that the only thing I hate about my job & living in Alaska is that I miss 75% of all NFL football games-- if only they'd move all their games to Thursdays... So, in an effort to help those of you understand exactly what I LOVE about being a part of this season, of being the 12th man on the field, here is exactly what happens during the season...

If you somehow manage to watch every regular-season game, you will witness about 1,100 touchdowns, 600 of them passing, 400 rushing and another 100 on defense and special teams. You'll also see 900 field goals and about a dozen safeties. You'll enjoy almost 10,000 completed passes and 9,000 first downs. If you like defense, you're in luck: a typical NFL season features roughly 1,200 sacks and 500 interceptions.

But an NFL season isn't all touchdowns, sacks and excitement. Over the next four months, you'll see 6,700 incomplete passes. The Football Outsiders database shows that a typical season includes 1,200 runs for no gain, 1,700 one-yard runs and almost 2,000 two-yard runs. For more boredom, how about 200 missed field goals, 2,400 punts, 200 touchbacks and over 500 fair catches?

You'll see about 4,300 penalties, 800 of them false starts, 600 offensive holding calls, 130 roughing the passer flags and over 200 defensive pass interference penalties, half of them against Quentin Jammer.

Finally, by the time they pry the remote from your lifeless hand in January, you'll have watched about 1,500 measurements for a first down, 3,500 reaction shots of the head coach on the sidelines, several thousand beer advertisements and a few hundred previews for 24 (a show you'll watch anyway) and War at Home (no comment). And you'll hear over 800 hours of announcer babble, three or four of which will be informative.

But thankfully, you'll only have to endure one Rascal Flats/P. Diddy concert
(taken from an article on FoxSports.com)

God, Thank you for creating such a wonderful & exciting game!! GO RAMS!!