There is one word and one word only that makes me excited about opening day, be it as a fan in the NFL or a player in the NFSL and that word is hope.
In the words of that female blacksmith character from the knights tale 'Hope guides me. It is what gets me through the day and especially the night'.
I love that hope that you have at the start of the season. That your team could win it all (or in the case of my team the Copperheads could win a game or too). This hope allows to image miraculous situation in which you win it all, before of course reality comes crashing down around you, before your team throws away chance after chance, before your star play gets a season ending injury or is arrested or some other crazy thing that will ruin everything that you had hope and dreamed about.
As for where I will be spending the opening night of the season that is good news, it will not be praying in some church or at hope watching the games unfold early in the english morning. I will be spending in the the beautiful Dordogne, the most beautiful part of France with good food, good wine, family and friends. Peace out their is a beer calling to me.
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In the words of that female blacksmith character from the knights tale 'Hope guides me. It is what gets me through the day and especially the night'.
I love that hope that you have at the start of the season. That your team could win it all (or in the case of my team the Copperheads could win a game or too). This hope allows to image miraculous situation in which you win it all, before of course reality comes crashing down around you, before your team throws away chance after chance, before your star play gets a season ending injury or is arrested or some other crazy thing that will ruin everything that you had hope and dreamed about.
As for where I will be spending the opening night of the season that is good news, it will not be praying in some church or at hope watching the games unfold early in the english morning. I will be spending in the the beautiful Dordogne, the most beautiful part of France with good food, good wine, family and friends. Peace out their is a beer calling to me.
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