Let The 2011 NFL Games Begin!

NFL Games Are On!

So what will be the best day of the year 2011 for NFL Fans? Was it 4th of July? Will it be Christmas Day? Thanksgiving Day? Halloween? A family/friends birthday party? Yes, those can be the best days of the year but there is always that possibility of something going wrong on these days! However, the day that can not go wrong for any [American] Football fan is the day when the games start; no matter, if its pre-season games! The reason can be the fact that Football fans have been deprived of Football for months, and knowing that the regular season is only a few weeks away is extremely exciting to them. The 2011 NFL season is different than any other season, even those seasons where there were lockouts (1974, 1982 and 1987), because the 2011 Lockout has been the longest in NFL history. For 4 months, there were absolutely no relevant Football talk that the fans found exciting enough to have their insatiable thirst quench; since all the Football talk was legal banter between the NFL and the NFLPA. No Football for 4 months to a NFL aficionado is the equivalent to a person not eating for several days! Just imagine the starvation that those NFL aficionados were going through, and the only sustenance that can appease them is Football. If the chants "WE WANT FOOTBALL, WE WANT FOOTBALL, WE WANT FOOTBALL" from the fans in attendance, during the 2011 NFL Draft (only a month and a half had gone with no Football) is not an indicator to how much the NFL means to the fans, then nothing that is said would be able to convey their passion for the game. 

The passion that people have for the NFL can not be compared to any other American sport but only to Hockey in Canada and Football (Soccer) all over the world. For the 2010 NFL season, 9 Billion Dollars were generated in revenue; bare in mind, the NFL season is roughly 6 months long. This goes to show, that people are willing to spend their hard earned money on NFL merchandise, ticket sells and/or purchasing NFL Sunday Ticket on Direct TV because it is something that they find of great value. Since it was 4 months of absolutely no [American] Football, or talks relating to players being traded or picked up, the people are probably going to make up their lost time by paying close attention to the pre-season games as if it was the regular season, just so they can get their void filled from the previous 4 months. Whereas, in previous years, the fans weren't so in tuned to the pre-season since there was some sort of news worthy stories circulating, but nonetheless, got excited since the Kick-Off Weekend would be weeks away. This being said, what day would be the best day of year 2011 for NFL Fans? Was it 4th of July? Will it be Christmas Day? Thanksgiving Day? Halloween? A family/friends birthday party? or would it be the start of NFL games, including pre-season?