My football season is over.

The college championship game was the final game I’ll watch until July when the Canadian Football League kicks off and I’ll get a chance to see Johnny “Football” Manziel get his shot to star for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, provided he and the team management can reach a salary agreement.

I have no doubt they will. Hamilton is the Oakland of the CFL; for some reason, they take the renegades and rebuilding projects. We’ll see how Manziel performs under June Jones, who replaced former Ole Miss quarterback, CFL legend and Ticats coach Kent Austin at mid-season.

But between now and then, I’ll be fighting withdrawal symptoms as I wean off the college game and look for other diversions. The NFL is not an option and hasn’t been for several years; I haven’t seen a Stupid Bowl in 22 years, and this year won’t be an exception. I’m not a basketball fan, although I will probably sneak a peek and see how LSU is faring under its new head coach. And I’ll stay in touch with the college game through various college football websites I have bookmarked on my computer and the college football apps on my phone.

In the end, I’ll end up doing what I’ve done the past few years — read or watch movies. I’ve got a pretty good library, despite Hurricane Katrina’s efforts, and a pretty good selection of DVDs covering a variety of titles, and a lot of documentary videos on World War II and Vietnam. I’m also a fan of the British detective series “Inspector Morse,” and it sequel, “Inspector Lewis,” which follows the career of Morse’s former sergeant. Selected episodes are available through YouTube, as are LSU football games from previous years.

If I want something other than my selection of films, I can go to the Warren County-Vicksburg Public Library and peruse its extensive selection of domestic and foreign films and documentaries available to be checked out — a habit I developed after my family and I moved here more than six years ago and for a while did without television or the Internet.

There is also the Jesse Brent Lower Mississippi River Museum and Interpretive Center, and the Vicksburg National Military Park, which is a favorite place for me to visit, especially the USS Cairo Museum, which is at the top of my list of places to visit in the park.

So let the pro playoffs continue and let the hype leading to the country’s professional football championship do its best to inflame and excite the fans. I’ll be sitting in my recliner at home watching a John Wayne classic, or “Band of Brothers,” or HBO’s “The Pacific,” and reading about President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the end of World War II or about the time the Mississippi River tried to change its course and connect with the Atchafalaya River during a major flood in the 1970s.

And getting ready for the start of the 2018 college game.

John Surratt is a staff writer for The Vicksburg Post. You may reach him at john.surratt@vicksburgpost.com