Kickoff Time

The NFL season is now underway with last night's underwhelming NFC East clash between the Giants and Washington. I've decided that I'm going to spend this season figuring out if I really even like NFL football anymore, or if I should completely stop paying attention. The league has really struggled to hold my interest, going back to the 2004 season where the Eagles made it to the Super Bowl with one of the most obnoxious players of all-time, Terrell Owens, making up the bulk of their offense. I don't think my waning interest in the NFL had anything to do with sour grapes from the Eagles eventual Super Bowl loss. I think it had more to do with just finding that there were fewer and fewer things to like about the league in general. I used to watch as much NFL football as was available to my on TV. It didn't matter who was playing. And I used to love watching Randall Cunningham, from his days when he was an equal threat with his legs as he was with his arm to his amazing comeback as an MVP-caliber drop-back passer with the Vikings in the late 90s. Pictured above is his rookie card, probably the football card in my possession that I would care about if I lost it.

As you can see, Randall already had a couple of seasons under his belt before he had a card of his own. This is one of the few fact blurbs about him that doesn't mention his college days punting the football for UNLV.

As for me, I'll try to make an effort to watch games whenever I have the chance and see if I can find some reasons to be intrigued again. But one thing I won't be doing is buying any more football cards. Unless, of course, they still make Pro Set cards for like $5 a hobby box...