Goin' to the Bucs game this Friday

I am not normally a fan of pre-season football games. In fact, I think they're probably the biggest single ripoff in professional sports, and there's a lot of contenders for that particular honor. Plus, for me, football is a distant third favorite when it comes to sports I like to watch. But I am going to the game between the Bucs and Jets on Friday night and am actually looking forward to it, for a couple of different reasons.

• Even though it's August and still ridiculously hot out, there's always something fun about going to football games played at night. Probably some psychic link to high school Friday nights long ago.
• Any opportunity to wear my throwback orange Doug Williams jersey in public is welcome. I hate it when teams make drastic changes to their colors or logos and the Bucs did both. I know lots of people hated those old uniforms but I am not one of them. I'm old fashioned and a hard line traditionalist when it comes to some things, this being one of those. And these days, when more and more teams look the same (how many variations on dark blue, light blue, black and silver do we need anyway?), anything that stands out is good.
• I'm making a conscious effort to get more into football this year. I still think the NFL is vastly overrated and I don't expect that perception to change but I want to try to enjoy the games and the whole experience around that. We'll see how that goes.