Okay so the title was inspired by Mad Giggler's recent post. Truth is, I've been wanting to type something for a couple days but couldn't think of what it was. Looking at the site, I notice there's a fair amount about T.V., Movies. Lots of Poetry, and now a post about Books. There's obviously not enough stuff about Whedon, Buffy, Angel, Firefly or Serenity. But there's absolutely nothing about Sports. More Importantly nothing about Football.
So I'm ending that. Although It won't be too much of a comment as My Annual League Preview will be up in about a month. Now that the atrocity that was the NBA Finals is over, the NHL still is ceasing to exist, and MLB is pointless before the last month or so (I mean come one 162 games, is it really necessary for that long of a season?), we're stuck in a dead zone of sports. There's no real scoreboard watching to be done anymore, and about the only newsworthy articles over the next couple weeks will be the NBA Free Agency, but that won't last long.
70 Days until the Defending SuperBowl Champion New England Patriots(Man I hate typing that), start the season by facing the Oakland Raiders, and head case Randy Moss. That still seems like a long time, Heck that's only 22 less days, than the countdown to Serenity's release. Fortunately in less than a month teams will begin reporting to Training Camp, which means we'll start to get football related news. And not just reports about that cry baby T.O. griping that he needs to have his 7 year contract, that he signed only last year, reworked so he can better provide for his family. We'll get real news. News that will help inspire the hope of fans of all 32 teams.
You see the beautiful thing about the NFL is all teams start the season thinking they can actually go all the way this year. Heck even the 49ers, who went 2-14 last year, are talking playoffs, though they are mainly just fooling themselves. It's not like the MLB where the teams with the money can buy their way into competition. It's not like the NBA, where fans of Atlanta, and Clippers went into last year without hope. It's not like the NHL, because they NFL actually plays games. In the NFL parity reigns supreme. Afterall last year's New England Patriots was only the 2nd time 6 years that the SuperBowl Champion had even made the playoffs the previous year. Even the Cincinatti Bengals, who used to be the laughing stock of the league, has put together two non losing seasons in a row.
In the NFL hope springs eternal. At least during the spring, because come fall the Rams will crush all . (See even I can rhyme)
