The great thing about football and really any sport is the theatrics and drama behind it. The best games are the ones with hard hits, big plays, and ones that come down to the last second. The Spectacle of Sports has long been ingrained in our society. Think back to Greece and the First Olympics, Rome and the Colosseum...Sports are a Norm.
The other good thing about sports is the opportunities that they provide, especially football. Football is a great sport for leadership. It includes motivation, communication, determination, and any other "ation" that comes along.
Like many others, I do yell at my TV when football is on. There are many "Come Ons", "Catch The Balls", "Why would you run that plays" and the like. I am also reminded of a Theodore Roosevelt quote that I think goes well with football:
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
