We're finally back into the groove of football season , which makes me think about how I first got into football. I became a fan at my high school games, soaking up the Friday Night Lights that Texas does best. In college, I moved on to following the antics of the Big 10. Now that I'm an adult, it's about time I settled down with an NFL team. It's so interesting to hear about how different people first got interested in the game. So many of us really came for the vibes: the energy of a football…

Yesterday, the long-awaited first Sunday of the football season commenced. To that I say, thank God, because summer sports don't hit the same. You've got baseball every day, which isn't as easy to get invested in. You don't have that one special day a week where your team plays: every day could be a great day in baseball, but you don't have the psychic powers to know which day that will be. In football, you have your weekly special day to watch the big game. No matter what happens, you know The…

Love means nothing in tennis.

Goggles on

The fanbase for the Buffalo Bills now spans from the Bills Mafia to TikTokers.

Prepare to be disgusted.

As a former sports skeptic, I always found that melodramatic sports movies like Remember the Titans and Miracle were more interesting than the recreational activities they were written about. They were mostly shorter than the games (or matches) themselves, and generally had a better ratio of hunks, which kept my teenage boy-crazy ass satisfied. As entertaining as the films were, it's pretty clear that Hollywood writers don't play sports. But that doesn't mean they don't create insane sports tro…

Whether you're a fan of sports or not, there are unarguably few worldwide events as tense, polarizing, or emotionally charged as the Olympic Games. We see superheroes on TV, but hidden behind the scenes are years of grueling preparation. Most wouldn't be able to handle the emotional pressure and physical stress that comes with training to compete in the Olympics , and it's pretty incredible that many of these athletes manage to make it look easy. We don't have to tell anyone that it's anything …

We've trained for this.

The memes are coming home

A facepalm heard across the world

Exhibition fight go brrrr

He's got skills.