It’s not that I need a slow warmup to get excited for football. I just fear if I don’t gradually reintroduce myself, I’ll pull an emotional investment muscle.
My sports fandom has a tendency to go dormant at times. Like Fank and Peter covered on the podcast, this offseason wasn’t really that type of situation. There was just so many other things happening in the world of sports, it was easy to put 1-11 in the very back of your mind and let it sit there unbothered. That being said, no matter how sore the muscles are, we gotta stretch em.