Perhaps your favorite team isn’t playing until Monday night this week. Or maybe you’re faced with a long off season and don’t know how to bide your time until your weekly football games come back on TV. Whatever the reason for your Sunday afternoons suddenly becoming football-free, you shouldn’t just waste away those precious free hours sulking over the loss of your favorite sport coverage. Instead, fill those now-empty hours with a replacement diversion or activity that speaks to that same competitive side you have. Below, we’ll give you a few options to consider so you don’t have to decide what to do with your Sunday afternoon free time all on your own.
Poker Games
Poker has many of the same mathematically-derived statistical components that football does, and despite most football-loving men refuting their inner geek-hood, true sports fanatics often revel in the more nerdy aspects of the sport. Beyond that, poker’s also competitive, requires active thinking, and has real stakes. Plus, it’s ‘manly’ enough that you can easily call the guys over for a game without feeling as though you’re harming your innate manhood, whatever that may mean. With a simple set of poker chips, a deck of playing cards, and a table of decent enough size, you should be able to a Sunday afternoon poker game during those days when football is not on TV. Just don’t take everyone’s winnings too often or you’ll have the guys throwing their poker chips straight at your head.
Video Games
If you aren’t one who can stomach all the betting and bluffing anticipation that come with playing poker on Sunday afternoons, you may prefer more fantastical diversions to keep you preoccupied. Video games offer those fantasy worlds and thanks to the proliferation of games available, you should be able to find a game that speaks to your personal interests easily. You can always play some NFL-themed video games, or should you not be able to tolerate playing a football video game when you can’t watch it on TV, there are games for many other sports available as well. So whether you want to fog up your glasses and play Final Fantasy or take a whack at home plate with a round of Wii Sports, you should be able to hold yourself over until the next NFL season begins anew.
