Well, Before the end of last year, my only interaction with grid iron was with the game NFL Blitz 2000 on PS1, Great game and it taught me the basics of the game. After that I didn't really pay much attention to the sport, but I used to watch the occasional Superbowl if I was at home when it was on.
They last year I was flicking through the channels and decided to leave it on the NFL as nothing else was really on. And then I saw this play.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gra1Mn4SWv8
Needless to say I though it was awesome. So I started watching all the playoff series games of last year, Picked the Cardinals as my team (Thanks to the Warner to Fitzgerald combo they had going last year) and decided that I would follow the sport i little more closely than before.
Which brings us the this year and thanks to my work schedule of having Sunday and Mondays off, I've been watching a whole lot more and have been enjoying it greatly.
To be honest what I think attracts me to the sport in general are the big plays (like the one above), I absolutely love long pass plays, the theatre and drama of it all and how big the occasion seems to be. Like how psyched up the players are after they do something good, how into it the crowd gets, etc. All of this makes the game unlike any other.
Rugby League is still my first choice spectator sport, but its good to have the NFL as something to keep my interest in the off season.
