National Football League

First, some statistics: 

• The National Football League or NFL is an American football league made up of 32 teams around the US.
• There are two conferences, four divisions per conference and 16 teams per conference. It can be extremely confusing to someone who does not follow the NFL. But if you are a huge fan, then the conferences and divisions make it easier to keep track of your favourite teams and how they are doing in the league.
• Football is an intense game and even though there are technically four quarters of 15 minutes each, a game takes about three hours to play.
• There are 17 weeks of games in the regular season and each team plays once a week, except for one week, when each team has a rest. It is too intense to play more than once a week.
• The pace of football makes a hockey game seem like speed skating, which is good in my house because hockey is on every night now.
• NFL games are played on Sunday during the day, and most sports channels air a game. There is one game played on Sunday night, one game on Monday night, and another game on Thursday night. 
• My favourite teams are the New England Patriots and the Green Bay Packers.

Now, some history:

I started off hating football because I didn't understand it and thought it was a useless game. I didn't enjoy watching sports at all, in fact. Then this past year on Sundays I had time to chill on the couch and watch TV. Unfortunately, my dad was chilling with and always had clicker privileges, which meant we were watching football.

About a month in I found that I was looking forward to Sunday afternoon football, which was a major shock to my family. But people change. Although not my mom. She still hates football.