Yes, When Else is There Hope in So Many Sports?
So is the fall one of the best tones of the year for. sports fans or what’ it starts in the beginning of September as the baseball season winds down and your teams is a quizillion games out of the playoffs. (Hey more years that man not that has been the case with my. Home team Phillies!) You are given either college or NFL football! I choose both!
First there’s Football – College and Pro!
I follow the Eagles in the NFL and my college teams are those where I went to school the Florida Gators and the Georgia Bulldogs. An odd combination,eh?
Well see I went to Florida and my wife to Georgia. When we married she wanted to go back to school so we moved to Athens. She said in school for a quarter but we lived in Athens for four years. I eventually went back to school at UGA I only went for one year to get the credits I needed to get a Bachelor of Science degree in Education. By the way both my Florida degree in Politcal Science and my Georgia degrees have prominently been displayed on my walls unused!
They did lead to my being hired by the consulting engineering firm for which I worked for over thirty years!
Then There’s the Start of the NBA and NHL Seasons
So back to sports in the fall. So with the footballs seasons three to five weeks into swing the baseball playoff start, the National Hockey League season starts and the NBA pre-season gets underway!
And the MLB Playoffs and World Series
So last night I watched the Sixers lose to the Celtics, the Indians beat the Yankees (I just flipped back I time to see the grand slam that made the score 8-7!) and the Dodgers beat the Diamondbacks. Oh and a saw bits and pieces of the Nationals and Cubs game!!
Oh and earlier in the evening I even got my nightly political fix by watching a little of Hardball with Chris Matthews and All in with Chris Hayes!
The party has continued today! So far I’ve watched Georgia crush Vanderbilt And am now watching the Gators lose to LSU. Come on Gators! Later tonight I’ll be watching both of the National League Divisional series games capped off with the Flyers in the road playing the Anaheim Ducks!
Does Get any better?
Yes it is the best sports time of the year the season are all new and hope is springing eternal! Unlike the end of the basketball and hockey seasons when your teams are once again watching the playoffs. Or February when the Eagles are watching the Super Bowl.
!! It maybe this year will be different at least for one of the teams!!!
So do you agree that this is the best time of the year in sports? I know many probably think that July is the best month. You have the Tour de France going and football training camp starting! Yeah right!
