Post Football Blues

Post Football Blues:

For those of you who are going through sports withdrawal because:

1. You’re not even sure what channels show hockey games. Plus you can’t watch it without wanting to beat somebody’s ass.
2. You haven’t watched an NBA game since Pete Maravich stopped playing. You watched this year’s Allstar game until you saw Eva Longoria, then turned the channel.
3. You LOVE playing golf. You HATE watching it.
4. You love college football, but have had your absolute fill of the undeniable travesty that recruiting has become. (Hint: have you cursed a 17-year old kid because he signed with Notre Dame or Florida? Then yeah, you’ve had your fill)
5. You got your wife a Valentine’s Day present because there was nothing else going on that would cause you to forget.
6. You called in a talk radio show because they were having a discussion on whether or not Tom Brady was a bad guy for fathering a child out of wedlock.

Then I’m here to help………..

Let me qualify first by saying I’m not a huge NFL fan. I get excited about college football. But I watch the Atlanta Falcons if they’re on, and I’ll watch the playoffs. So even after college football is over, I have some football to watch. But some thing just happened that should make us all excited – the NCAA’s reversal of the clock rules. Most people don’t realize how important this is. Did you not realize just how fast the season went? Were you like me, looking at your calendar on November 11^th saying, “Man, where did the TIME go?” (well, for Bulldog fans, we didn’t want the season to end because of the momentum. The Dawgs played like a high school JV team for most of October, but turned it around to end the season with three straight wins over Top 25 teams). Because they wanted to speed up the game, what the NCAA rules committee ended up doing was cutting the game and leaving the same amount of commercials. Don’t get me wrong. I love those ESPN Gameday commercials, just not at the expense of seeing field action. More football = a good thing. Do I understand that commercials are necessary to offset the cost of programming? Sure. But do I believe that anyone besides network officials were complaining about the games running too long? Huh-uh. If a network nimrod thinks that any of us actually watches a shortened version of news or “Everybody Loves Raymond” immediately after the SEC Game of the Week telecast, they need to do more research. We’re flipping the channel to Sportscenter to watch the VERY highlights of the game we just saw AND looking to see what teams above us got beat so we can jump up in the rankings. So, in essence, we’re just watching more football, wherever it may be. Try to end the telecast too soon and I’ll just flip over to TBS and watch PAC 10 football if I have to.

More football. It’s all about more football. Don’t forget it.