Here at AY, we love football just as much as you do. That also means, right about this time of year, we get more restless than a cat that just heard a can opener. College sports are done, the NFL draft has come and gone, and the professional baseball season is something like nine months away from resolving itself. We are, as they say, ready for some football. Take a gander at some of the things we’re looking forward to, and feel free to add your own.
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- Our office betting pool for Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest drew less interest than we had hoped.
- We love painting our faces and screaming until we’re blue in the face, and in related news, we are no longer welcome at several golf courses.
- There is just something about big, intimidating coaches yelling from the sideline. You can’t find that with pickleball.
- Staff writer Alex Hardgrave’s dog, Football, is likely to sweep the AY Best Pet Name awards yet again.
- We love it when high school teams run through those big paper banners. We also love how it helps Arkansas’ big paper banner industry.
- Arkansas is home to The Battle of the Ravine, the official football game for anyone who can’t stand their next-door neighbor.
- The author of this list used to coach high school football and loves regaling coworkers and first dates with talk of pattern match coverage and run-pass option concepts.
- Yes, we will stay up to watch Oregon State vs. New Mexico on Fox Sports 12, and we will order DoorDash at 11 p.m. Just try and stop us.
- Mascots! The Arkansas Razorback! The Georgia Bulldog! The Western Kentucky Amorphous Red Blob With Eyes! [And we wish Oregon would have a live duck. Come on, guys.]
- Nothing beats expensive, epic beer commercials for beer that tastes like slightly-grumpy carbonated water.
- The Little Rock Touchdown Club. It’s the premier weekly football gathering in the country, and we already can’t wait.
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