And So Begins the Dumbest Week in Sports...Seriously No NFL Football?!?!
The slow build towards opening day...slows down considerably as the NFL takes the weekend off
I totally get how terrible preseason games are...for pretty much everyone. And whether they play three, four or five games, the last one is especially hard to watch. But are we really saying we want to just take a pause for the cause?
After months without any football, we all dove into training camp news, camp battles and the drama around roster-building that occurs every August. We watched terrible football...and for us, it was kind of especially terrible football at times. As the junkies we know ourselves to be, it is somewhat brutal to get back "on" football and then find out our stash is gone. Who is Roger Goodell anyway, my sponsor?
My gut tells me that this is a temporary situation. The league no doubt wants to add another regular season game AND another bye week for each team (likely to match up with international travel). The preseason schedule may very well shrink more, but the NFL will have to reclaim this weekend as theirs (even if it's the end of the preseason). The not-so-old-but-weirdly-outdated concept of moving aside for the student-athletes playing college ball no longer means anything because they're all professional football players now too. And they don't play on Sunday.
Here is what we here at MSP have been saying for years...figure out the schedule to end with a Super Bowl on a three-day weekend, not begin with a three-day weekend in September and no NFL action. It's Labor Day weekend y'all...the grill is getting fired up, the coolers are getting filled and we will be gathering together on Sunday anyway. I love my dear friends...dearly, but can we all agree that Commanders football makes that barbecue scenario 100 times better?
Let's not forget...nobody has lost a game yet. Every fanbase believes they are in it. The party gets intense! That first game deserves a day off on the backside of it, don't you think?
I guess I'll just add this to the list of things that would get me elected emperor...if anyone cared what I thought--right behind a microwave setting that stops at 1 second after midnight so your wife doesn't know you're reheating pizza at 2 AM and universal acceptance of peeing outside in your own yard (because nothing feels better).
We'll keep trying to change the world for the better...one genius idea at a time.
