The Football Fan’s Diet

PITTSBURGH – This is the coach speaking here. I am here to say that Matt took a Bye Week last week and this was approved by the Commissioner of The Football Fan’s Diet. That is right, Matt took a rest from it all, green-lighted and sanctioned from the highest offices of The FFD.

We were debating if we would have Bye Week here in the FFD, and were loath to take one. But, you know what. We needed a Bye Week badly. We were getting banged up. We needed a breather to regroup and retool for the final push to the playoffs.
So what exactly is a Bye Week?

A Bye Week is a one week break from The FFD where you don’t keep score and don’t really worry about beer or anything like that. You simply eat normally. You avoid the binges naturally. It is really a week to rest and take a breather. You don’t score yourself. You just live.
That being said, there are some pointers to keep in mind.

Go to the gym as often as you like, but take it easy. Get recharged. Focus on getting back to your healthy ways. That is what is happening during the bye week. And, just like taking a Bye Week in the NFL, you don’t want anything stupid to happen. You know what I mean: like Plaxico Burress shooting himself in the foot (literally and figuratively). By the same token, don’t you do something really dumb like eat a bucket of KFC and call it a Bye Week? This would be like Plaxico shooting himself in the foot.

Please not that the bye week is not in lieu of a particular week. This means if you happen to take a Bye Week in the middle of Week 12 (which is what Matt did) you go back to Week 12, you don’t skip it. So we are now on Week 12. Our bye week—Matt’s—was taken this past week.

Matt did a lot of healthy things and did get some good exercise in, notably in the form of yard work and hunting for golf balls as a result of errant tee shots. But, now, it is time to move on. It is back to Week 12.
The Bigger question now if Matt is recharged. Because, now, it counts. Now, is the time that real champions play their best football? Is Matt a real champion here? The coming weeks will surely tell.
So if you need a Bye Week, take it. Take a week off. Rest. Enjoy. Live normally for a week. See what that is like. Then, after that week is over, get geared up for remaining season. You will need that energy, because it doesn’t get any easier and there will be no more Bye Weeks.

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