The looming football week. With one game under our belt and more to come Sunday and Monday, we all sit like children on Christmas morning to wait to open their presents to see out team play and win. Every fan knows from the start that their team can and will win. This is what I'm dubbing as false hope.
This false hope keeps all of us going through most of the football season, most of the offseason, preseason, the NFL draft and free agency. During the season, we hope that our team can hang with the big fellas of the NFL; the Patriots, the Packers, The Steelers, and the Bears (can you see my bias). During the offseason, we just hope out team can get into the NFL draft and get good players. We also hope that they can make it through free agency with either nobody leaving or a player who is a good replacement if one does. This false hope makes us all believers in our teams.
False hope. What more can be said about it? We are all guilty of it. We all think our team is better than what it really is. Whether you are a Bears fan like me who put all of your beliefs in Jay Cutler, or if you're a Packers fan who has put all your beliefs in a banged up defense or if you're a Vikings who knows your teams sucks but cheer them on regardless because of that false hope.
So is false hope bad? Depends how you look at it. All I can say is it makes every football season interesting.
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