Some people love winter, some people dread it but you can be pretty sure that at least one kind of people love it, but not because of the snow. I'm talking about football fans. Some of the best games in the NFL are played in the NFL football schedule week 17 and you can be sure that since the days are short, it's cold outside and there is nothing much else to do that football fans will use the opportunity to sit comfortably at home and watch every game they can.
NFL football schedule week 17 is specific because it starts on New Year's day in 2011 and there will be no Monday Night Football game in the final week of 2011's NFL football season. There are also no teams that will have byes in that week before the 2012 playoffs start.
The only hindrance between you and watching all the football games you can is possibly your wife/girlfriend but I'm sure you will find a way to explain just how important watching the games is. Watching football is also a social event, it's not something you just do by yourself you invite your friends over, you talk, you watch your favorite teams play, you eat junk food. Then the next game you go to their place or even better you go to a bar, you have the chance to meet new people.
Football isn't just watching a game on TV it has involvement in all parts of your life from social to professional. Knowing a bit or two about football can always help you jump start a conversation and opens you to the possibility of meeting new people and just like you can meet new people you can establish better relations with your boss, colleagues or clients. The game is important but maybe more important is what it represents.