If football is your drug, Sunday was a needle that buried deep in your veins and gave you a crazy trip.

It started with an apparent Green Bay dog-stomp of the defending Super Bowl champions and ended with an actual dog-stomp of unlucky Andrew Luck and the Colts at the hands of Emperor Palpatine, err, Bill Belichik and the New England Patriots. If your head spun with euphoria when Jermaine Kearse hauled in a walk-off touchdown catch, you surely crashed by the time Tom Brady threw yet another touchdown sandwiched between bad Rob Lowe commercials.

But Sunday was also the last football double-header of the year, bringing a virtual end to one of the wildest seasons across the board in recent memory.

Warren County may have even had the strangest of them all. Can any other place in America boast a state championship appearance by one team and a playoff berth by another that won exactly one game? I don’t think so.

In the college ranks, we got to witness the first SWAC championship for Alcorn State since John Gibbs Jr. was watching Nickelodeon. We also got to see College GameDay visit Mississippi campuses back-to-back, Katy Perry party in Oxford, Mississippi State reach No. 1 in a relevant college football poll and Jonathan Paplebon sport a maroon suit that Craig Sager would call ugly.

Even Southern Miss won a couple of games!

I’m too young to remember a better time for Mississippi football, but I do know this year has been one for the books.

I lapped up every play like a dehydrated dog, from Porters Chapel-Union Christian in the Red Carpet Bowl to the national championship in JerryWorld.

The Monday two weeks from now is always the most depressing of the year. It’s when we’re forced to slog to work while we bleed nacho cheese and fight seasonal depression because guys won’t be throwing around a brown ball and trying to maul each other for our entertainment four days out of the week.

Until then, us football ex-pats will be forced to watch basketball (ugghhh) or baseball (wake me up in the fifth inning) until that magical Friday night when Warren County comes together on the red carpet.

This is the time when you’re allowed to create a Neftlix account, travel to Europe or actually talk to your family members.

But fear not.

Football will be back again regularly in just six months.

I’ll be taking a nap until then.

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Cory Gunkel is a reporter and can be reached by email at cory.gunkel@vicksburgpost.com or by phone at 601-636-4545.