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Is It Fall Yet?
Since they lost to Georgia, 24-12, on New Year’s Day in the Capital One Bowl, I’ve been keeping a count of how many days remain until my alma mater's — Michigan State’s — first football game.
As of today, 52 days linger until the start of the best time of the year — to me, at least.
The first full day of the college football season begins Sept. 5.
The first regular season NFL game takes place Sept. 10.
Pennant races will be heating up throughout Major League Baseball in September, and college basketball and the NBA hit come October.
Everybody who knows me knows I’m kind of like Dustin Hoffman in “Rain Man” when it comes to sports. When I get bored, I don’t play video games or try to find a movie on TV, I go to basketball-reference.com. I got into an argument with a girl I used to date at Christmas in 2004 because she tried to tell me only Big Ten and Pac 10 teams had played in the Rose Bowl up to that point (Miami/Nebraska, 2002, and Oklahoma/Washington State, 2003. Go look it up.... I’ll wait.).
Oh, and did I mention I fully intend on planning the births of my children around Bowl Season, the Super Bowl, March Madness the NBA Playoffs, and the NFL and NBA Drafts?
This is my foolproof way of making sure I’m in the room while she’s in labor. I don’t think it’d look so good if I was in the waiting room sometime in June watching Lakers/Celtics while the (future) wife is writhing in pain, blaming me for said pain, and certain parts of her anatomy are stretching every which way (Seriously, this is my logic and nobody’s been able to sway me in the seven or eight years I’ve had this laid out).
I bring all this up because I’m going to be extremely bored for the rest of the day, as today is the one day where there’s absolutely nothing going on in the world of sports.
The MLB All-Star Game was last night, and the second half of the season starts tomorrow. Training camps around the NFL jump off next week. Pre-season football begins Aug. 9.
What’s a sports enthusiast to do?
People keep telling me I need to plant flowers outside my house to add “curb appeal.” I can do lawn work, trimming and edging and things like that, but the last time I checked, my thumbs are brown, not green. Just trying to figure out the difference between perennials and annuals gives me a migrane.
I could get through the day by watching some old games on ESPN Classic or the Big Ten Network, but those networks aren’t taking advantage of the ratings bump they’d receive if they decided to show, say, Syracuse/Georgia from the ’96 Sweet Sixteen or the 2003 Fiesta Bowl .
I could actually read some other sections of the newspaper, besides sports, of course, and find out what’s going on with the rest of the world, but I don’t know how much more talk about Synagro, Sonya Sotomayor and Michael Jackson I can take. I will admit, though, that I stayed up late last night watching “The Jacksons: An American Dream” on VH1 for the 3,456,888th time.
Do you understand my dilemma? I have absolutely no clue what I’m gonna do with myself today. It’s days like these that I thank Mario for video games (the newest NCAA Football was released yesterday).
Funny how everything goes back to college football, isn’t it?
As of today, 52 days linger until the start of the best time of the year — to me, at least.
The first full day of the college football season begins Sept. 5.
The first regular season NFL game takes place Sept. 10.
Pennant races will be heating up throughout Major League Baseball in September, and college basketball and the NBA hit come October.
Everybody who knows me knows I’m kind of like Dustin Hoffman in “Rain Man” when it comes to sports. When I get bored, I don’t play video games or try to find a movie on TV, I go to basketball-reference.com. I got into an argument with a girl I used to date at Christmas in 2004 because she tried to tell me only Big Ten and Pac 10 teams had played in the Rose Bowl up to that point (Miami/Nebraska, 2002, and Oklahoma/Washington State, 2003. Go look it up.... I’ll wait.).
Oh, and did I mention I fully intend on planning the births of my children around Bowl Season, the Super Bowl, March Madness the NBA Playoffs, and the NFL and NBA Drafts?
This is my foolproof way of making sure I’m in the room while she’s in labor. I don’t think it’d look so good if I was in the waiting room sometime in June watching Lakers/Celtics while the (future) wife is writhing in pain, blaming me for said pain, and certain parts of her anatomy are stretching every which way (Seriously, this is my logic and nobody’s been able to sway me in the seven or eight years I’ve had this laid out).
I bring all this up because I’m going to be extremely bored for the rest of the day, as today is the one day where there’s absolutely nothing going on in the world of sports.
The MLB All-Star Game was last night, and the second half of the season starts tomorrow. Training camps around the NFL jump off next week. Pre-season football begins Aug. 9.
What’s a sports enthusiast to do?
People keep telling me I need to plant flowers outside my house to add “curb appeal.” I can do lawn work, trimming and edging and things like that, but the last time I checked, my thumbs are brown, not green. Just trying to figure out the difference between perennials and annuals gives me a migrane.
I could get through the day by watching some old games on ESPN Classic or the Big Ten Network, but those networks aren’t taking advantage of the ratings bump they’d receive if they decided to show, say, Syracuse/Georgia from the ’96 Sweet Sixteen or the 2003 Fiesta Bowl .
I could actually read some other sections of the newspaper, besides sports, of course, and find out what’s going on with the rest of the world, but I don’t know how much more talk about Synagro, Sonya Sotomayor and Michael Jackson I can take. I will admit, though, that I stayed up late last night watching “The Jacksons: An American Dream” on VH1 for the 3,456,888th time.
Do you understand my dilemma? I have absolutely no clue what I’m gonna do with myself today. It’s days like these that I thank Mario for video games (the newest NCAA Football was released yesterday).
Funny how everything goes back to college football, isn’t it?
posted by Jason Carmel Davis at
2:17 PM
2 Comments:
I like the classic football on various tv, especially the big ten network; however, i hate it that they report in the information spread who won the game and how. Kinda makes watching it worthless. NFL Network, I think, doesn't do that when they show old games.
I like the old games, too. I never watch the bowl games, because I can always remember which team won thoses. But when a network shows a random college football game that took place in an October, I like not remembering which team won.
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