What makes you get up early?

Yesterday morning Stanley & I set the alarm for 3am, and it wasn't even Christmas, nor did we have a pre-dawn flight. We cut off blissful slumber on a Friday morning for something far better than sleep - football.

Dragging our blankets and pillows into the TV room, we settled in to a live stream of the season-opening Redskins/Giants game, and someone among us even mixed himself a cocktail to boot. All the old favorites came streaming back, so familiar after this whole off-season. Ed Hoculee, still working out; Eli Manning, showing moments of brilliance and little-boy fright back-to-back. Some things, apparently, have changed - for example, all facemask penalties are now for 15-yards? They've done away with the 'incidental' variety, I guess, which I don't think makes the game any better or safer.

The "Sunday morning" games are at 9pm Sunday, including Seattle and one of my personal favorite matchups, Titans/Jags, so we'll be staying up late and ordering Gyros for that, for sure.