The Football Fan’s Diet

By Matt’s Inner Coach
On The FFD

PITTSBURGH – This is Matt’s Inner Coach here to review Week 3. Week 3 sucked. Matt can talk all he wants about his brain and that he is a monkey’s ass or whatever. He can talk all he wants about changing his head coach. It doesn’t change the fact that in Week 3 Matt got it handed to him. The health wheels had come off the Football Fan’s Diet.

As his Inner Head Coach, I can help him think of the game plan – the mental aspect of living a healthy lifestyle for guys that still want to enjoy football. You can like and enjoy football, TV, basketball, golf, whatever and still be healthy. It is possible. That is what the Football Fan’s Diet is all about. However, he still needs to do the damn thing. Something in him needs to make him do it. For crying out loud, this guy has every excuse in the world.

I am pissed at him about last week’s lost. I could see it coming like a fullback on third and short. He lost the last 3 days of Week 2 and that was as sign of a bad week to come. It came. It all stemmed from that atrocious effort from that disastrous Friday in Week 2. He got killed. He gave up. Then he got outscored 10 of the next 12 days. This coming on the heels of a 14-day winning streak!

I could kick his dumb ass sometimes. He can sit there and say he wants to read this new book or that – he needs to get in the game and start scoring. You score by taking it to your Inner Fat Slob. You score by going to the gym and making healthy choices. He should stay way from the beer for a while too. That Friday of beer was his doom.

Luckily, he has appeared to turn it around. The past three days have been shutouts. But, it is Friday. What is he going to do this Friday that will be different?

To be a champion, he needs to work like one now in the preseason. It will not get any easier in the regular season. And despite what he wants to do about his Inner Head Coach, he is stuck with his brain. Yes, I am his DAMN brain for better or worse. Ownership is not going to make a change, so he has to put the game plan into action.

Health is an elusive thing for this guy. He has the potential to be healthy day in and day out. We all do. You do to. He has to loose this fat slob identity and assume the identity of a champion. One loss in preseason does not a season make, but it is going to be a long season and there will be many weeks ahead. I am not saying there won’t be challenges, but if he works hard now, good things will happen. The talent is there. The motivation is there.

I am reminded of an old line from the Paul Newman film The Hustler. When Burt Gordon (George C. Scott) is asked if Fast Eddie Felson (Paul Newman) can beat a certain fellow, he responds something to the effect “Yes, he can beat him. Will he beat him. That is a different question for Eddie.”

That is a different question for Matt. That’s it I am out of here. No more questions.

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