We Are The Addicts of Football
This weekend the long offseason wait finally comes to an end and we finally get our much needed fix of football. Sort of. Kinda. It’s sort of pathetic, really. We are true addicts. The Hall of Fame Game is probably the least meaningful game of football played during the entire football year but yet every year people still manage to convince themselves that the HoF game means something because it signals the start of the preseason after a long wait. The Pro Bowl, much as I mock it, is way cooler than this game. The Pro Bowl is just surrounded by the greatest weeks of football in the year whereas the HoF game comes during the worst.
The only thing remotely worthwhile about the HoF game is the return of football that it signals. Anyone who professes to like it knows deep down that’s the only reason why. The game is like a preseason game for preseason. It contains no value. You’d be better served watching some CFL games instead. Legions of people already want the preseason shortened to 2 games. This is a game between two teams that probably don’t want to be there, running incredibly safe and conservative plays. In the years long tradition of the HoF Game, something interesting has happened exactly once. In the grand scheme of things, the game itself is probably the least interesting part of the weekend. The Hall of Fame inductions themselves are far more interesting and a much better way to signal the beginning of football than some chump exhibition joke of a game.
So have fun tomorrow everybody, as you make it to about the second quarter before remembering you have something better to do. Enjoy Andrew Luck going 3/4 for 12 yards and a single first down before they bench him for Packer legend Scott Tolzien. Enjoy Aaron Rodgers going 5/6 for 17 yards. Enjoy watching sideline interviews with the inductees as the game is happening live behind them. Enjoy not recognizing a single player name in the 4th quarter, should you make it that far. Best of all, enjoy the plethora of bullshit articles that come out the next day with titles like “10 things we learned from the Hall of Fame Game” with #1 being something like “Rodgers is still Rodgers” like it’s news.
But on the other hand, I’ll take it, because goddamn it’s been too long since I had a hit.
Sunday edit: The game got cancelled lmfao
Staying up until 3am for these comics has more or less become a habit. Not complaining though, totally worth it
maybe favre can unretire again and replace rodgers once he goes 1/4 on the opening drive
No
That’s it. I need a shirt that says “Do Crime”.
Some of us are still going WLAF/NFL Europe/Europa cold turkey.
Just as well I don’t mind the 3-down and indoor games.
Have any players moved up the depth chart because of the HoF game? Seems like a game less for the starters and more an opportunity for the second and third stringers to make their case.
The Hall of Fame game reminds me of high school football
Small stadium, night game, you only know a few names out there, the honoring of past players (“tonight is a tribute to the class of ’87”), you don’t care for the outcome, bad playing….
If it rains, then that does it. It’s high school. It always seemed to rain during my high school’s games
Depends on the High School and where. If we’re talking Texas then High School ball is more important than pro ball.
Canton McKinley High School plays there. Along with Malone University and Walsh University
Canton McKinley High School plays there. Along with Malone University and Walsh University
This is the time of year where I chime in with my usual “Hey the CFL is in full swing — give it a try!”. I fully grant that the quality of football is not as good as the NFL but it is fun in its own way like NCAA.
I tried CFL once… no longer good quality after they lost the flutie strain
5 Arena ball
I tried the CFL once it was 3rd and one and they didnt go for it.
I’m gonna watch the HoF Game on TV even though it’s 20 minutes from me
Same homie. Summit or Stark?
Stark
I used to always get so hyped for the Hall of Fame game as a little kid. “FINALLY SOME FOOTBALL” at the forefront of my mind. Then of course I’d stop watching halfway through the first quarter because the game sucked and it wasn’t the Pats playing.
I don’t have a problem with the preseason though, because I can kinda understand what’s going through the minds of those players. It may not matter to us, but to those rookies out there, the ones hoping to just make the roster, it’s everything. We shouldn’t cut the preseason down (maybe make it three games if you reaaaally want to) or gut it entirely because it hurts the players.
I agree, they might seem like worthless exhibitions to fans, but for players with little to no experience (or oldies proving they still got it) it’s all or nothing. That’s the interesting part
Are you saying you’re not hyped to see Scott Tolzien and Raijon Neal against people I don’t care enough to remember on the Colts? Some kind of football fan you are.
Yea, I’d much rather watch CFL than preseason NFL. And I have. Go Redblacks!
Go renegades!
Was I the only one who got the Johnny Cash reference in the last box?
Nope. That was the best part of the whole comic.
Thought it was a nine inch nails reference yeah I know “fuckin millenials” lmao
You were right.
They should take the HOF inductees for each team in the HOF game and have them play a flag football game with the teams
I don’t think Rodgers will even play. When was the last time an actually important player suited up for the HOF game?
You shoot up preseason?!?!?! Dude you gotta snort that shit
A fitting analogy: Preseason football is to Regular Season football as Cocaine diluted by 90% with chalk dust, baby powder, and Ortho Bug B Gone is to Pure Cocaine.
I mean that Ortho gives it a nice lil kick
Arena ball
A nine inch nails joke!!!
It’s like if the NFL regular season were a feast. The HoF game occurs before you’ve eaten, so you’re starving and your insatiable hunger makes it sound delicious when it’s really not. The Pro Bowl occurs when you’re already mostly full (and saving the rest of your appetite for the best part of the meal) so you’re like “whatever.”
Wow. The NFL managed to screw up yet again. The HOF game is cancelled! Because they painted the field wrong.
THE GAME GOT CANCELLED LMFAO
I wanted to watch football tonight
Sadly, the syringe got slapped out of our hands just before panel 4, and now we have to wait a bit more before our sweet, sweet fix.
Or it was cut with something else…
Olympic medals?
Well looks like we all know what Tuesday’s comic is!
HOW DO YOU LET THE FIELD CONDITIONS GET SO BAD YOU HAVE TO CANCEL
YOU LITERALLY HAD THE ENTIRE OFFSEASON TO GET IT READY
They’re trying to renovate the stadium and build a “HoF Village” to bring even more people to the area. http://www.profootballhof.com/news/hall-s-board-approves-hof-village-concept/ http://www.profootballhof.com/pro-football-hall-of-fame-village-partners-with-legacy-global-sports/
They had to throw the field back together so it was a concern
you had one job
In hindsight, this is probably your funniest comic ever.
I’ve been watching olympic women’s rugby sevens. It sort of vaguely resembles football?
Lmfaoooooooooooooooooooo