I happen to think it may be. Just hear me out.
As I sit here on this Thursday night getting prepared to do some channel flipping between some games that include some of the biggest names in there respective sports, I began to think that late September could be the best time of year for a sports enthusiast. I mean sure, there is nothing like that first college football game of the season when eight months of anticipation finally gives way to the opening kickoff, but lets review for a minute. Football season is just getting cranked up. The race for playoff spots is in full swing for over a dozen MLB teams. A new PGA FedEx cup champion will be crowned by the end of the weekend. We're roughly three weeks from the start of the NBA preseason, and there's the NHL lockout to discuss. Throw in a couple months of high profile UFC fights and I'm hard pressed to find a better time to be a sports fan.
Tonight alone you can watch the defending Super Bowl champions led by the other Manning (who has two, not one but two Super Bowl rings) take on one of the most electrifying QB's in the NFL in Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers. By the end of the first quarter you can flip over and watch Boise State try and win it's 19th consecutive September home game against a pass happy BYU team on the famed blue turf.
As I write this blog the Milwaukee Brewers have a 1 run lead in the top of the 9th. If they can close the deal they are one game closer to a wild card spot.Speaking of closing the deal, the Cincinnati Reds became the first team to clinch a playoff birth today. Hit "up" four times on your tv remote and you can see the 2011 MLB MVP runner-up Matt Kemp try and end his September slump and pull his Dodgers one game closer in the NL west standings. And that's just a couple of examples of what is shaping up to be one of the best Septembers for Major League Baseball in quite some time.
Then there's Tiger Woods, who continued his streak of great opening round golf by shooting 66 at Eastlake Golf Club today to place himself atop the leader board in the PGA's final tournament of the year. If the old Tiger shows up over the next three days then he will win the FedEx Cup again and the "Tiger is back" talk can carry over into the 2013 golf season.
We can almost officially start the "Not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, not six," not gonna happen, talk of the Miami Heat title run and the pure hatred of LeBron James. Is Dwight Howard actually gonna give effort to his new club? Can the Boston Celtics win one more for KG and Pierce? How many guns will be found in NBA locker rooms? My over/under on that by the way is at least 10, and that's only the ones that will get reported. If it were actually numbers I would raise that number to around 1000, but times that by 3 if you count the D league.
And we can kind of sort talk a little hockey, most likely KHL hockey as it seems that's were many of the NHL's top talent will be at least starting their seasons with a lockout in place. I'm not to worried about this however because, frankly, no ones losing money yet. Players haven't started missing game checks, owners haven't had empty arenas, and the NHL brass hasn't started receiving all the bad publicity that it cannot afford to get with an extended work stoppage. I have full confidence that this will not last long.
And all this is just the tip of the iceberg of what is happening and will continue to happen in the sports world over the next few months. I didn't even mention the chase for the Piston Cup with Lighting McQueen leading the standings after......(somewhere I'm sure there is someone who actually cares, and knows what the hell is going on in that "sport" known as Nascar.) I am not one of them by the way.
My point is, I am convinced this is the best time of year for a sports fan.
And it's only gonna get better from here
Not your typical Sports blog. Not your typical Sports writer. Cover2 touches on a little bit of everything in the sports world one sarcastic view at a time.
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