The Football Fan’s Diet

By Matt DeReno
On The FFD

PITTSBURGH – Last week was another pathetic effort on my part. I lost and barely noticed. I suppose if there is any good to be taken out of what looks to be a debacle of a preseason it is that the FFD does not lie. If I don’t score well, it is clearly because I have decided to ignore health and exercise. And, The FFD is serving to remind me of what I need to do and how far off the beaten path I have stumbled. I didn’t just stumble off the beaten path. Rather I was bushwhacked along it.

You see when I look at all the poor pathetic scores and see how this is now—count’em—4 preseason losses in a row, it means I have essentially mailed it in. However, I will not start over.
It is the preseason. The only danger of becoming the Tennessee Titans, whom coming off the heels of a great 2008 campaign have just flat out sucked to date in 2009, is to string together this sort of sad effort at the beginning of the regular season, when it counts.
That being said, no good NFL team with Super Bowl aspirations would mail it in like my team has done in the past month on the FFD. Yes, there have been moments of success, but those moments are few and far between. How then can I get it back?
I can at least start by winning this last week of preseason. If I can do that, then I can head into the regular season on a winning note. Maybe then, my slow start will be a thing of the past. Maybe then I will figure out how to beat my Inner Fat Slob during what is arguably the time of the year when the Inner Fat Slob plays its best game: The Holidays.

Well, time to get mentally prepared. The regular season looms as large as my jelly belly! I plan to play Ebenezer Scrooge to the Ghost of Fat Asses Past! You can bet my Dickens on that promise. Time to get this thing going the right way.

Last 2 weeks of preseason box scores (I am not proud of this at all…)

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