Would crime go up without football on Sundays? Thankfully, we won’t have to find out.

Crime would skyrocket, professed Ray Lewis, if the NFL lockout wasn’t resolved and the season was cancelled.  I, personally, wouldn’t have turned my Sundays into crime sprees like the Baltimore Raven superstar linebacker foresaw, but Preview postthere definitely would have been a void in my life had the lockout not been resolved.

Sundays in the fall is a religious day for me.  That is the day the Good Lord created for me, and people like me, to watch NFL football all day.  I can’t wait to wake up Sunday morning to watch the pregames shows, then the 1PM games, followed by the 4PM games, and capping the day with the Sunday night game.

I have multiple webpages open that track my fantasy football teams and the scores of all the NFL games.  Just last year, I added the NFL Redzone to my cable bill—best $8 a month I have ever spent.  It gives you live look-ins of every game with no commercials.  They show whichever game has a team with the ball in the red zone, which is between 20 yard and end zone.  Also, they break in live to whatever game has a big play such as a touchdown, turnover or momentum shift.

The Red Zone channel is so exciting you don’t even want to get up and use the bathroom if you have to.  Not sure if Scott Hanson, studio host of the Red Zone, ever uses the bathrooms.  They switch games every few minutes, sometimes seconds, and I suspect that he is hooked up to a catheter under the desk he sits at.

There are many people like me.  Ray Lewis wouldn’t be predicting anarchy Sundays without football if there weren’t.  People like this are the ones you see in sports bars watching all the games around the country.  People, also, show up to bars with their laptops and use the bar’s wi-fi to monitor their fantasy teams.

Would crime actually pickup on Sundays or in general with no NFL games? I used to live in Detroit and Cleveland.  In those two cities, both teams are usually eliminated from playoff contention way before the end of the season.  If crime has picked up in Cleveland and Detroit after both the Browns and Lions made it clear they couldn’t make the playoffs, then, right there lies evidence for a Ray Lewis case study.

I know I will be watching or listening to football games all Sunday, so I plan ahead and try to exercise, cleanup around the house, or run errands—all while monitoring the games on TV, my smartphone or listening on Sirius radio.  If the lockout cancelled the season, I would still be exercising, cleaning the house, and running errands, but doing so with my full attention.  I would probably find other things to do also, but wouldn’t look forward to them as much as NFL games.

When you were only able to get the one game the local network TV stations on Sundays, it would be boring compared to now.  The ways of being able to watch every game, accompanied by live scoring on fantasy football web pages, just makes NFL Sundays ultra fun.

The NFL owners and NFL Players Association have signed a long-term deal, so the only thing cancelling football on Sunday’s anytime soon is Harold Camping’s October 21st rapture prediction coming true.  Football Sundays are great for the crime rate—the sanity of hardcore fans like me, and electric companies making money by supplying electricity to watch football on TV.

Author: Aaron Lisker