We are now in the worst part of the year for sports, the post-Super Bowl hangover where we as a viewing public realize “holy ####, I have to pretend to care about the NBA, hockey and college basketball.”
This, ladies and gentlemen is known as sports purgatory.
Baseball doesn’t start for two months and we are forced in to having Sports Center have top-10 highlight reels of basketball assists. Now, don’t get me wrong, I will get into basketball when the time is appropriate, but the NBA regular season is about 50 games too long, I really can’t sit myself down to watch a slate of games until June. I just don’t understand how a sport that can be played in all four seasons of a calendar year.
Hockey has its moments as well, but by and large the sport is about as entertaining as listening to someone read the dictionary.
Which brings us now to college basketball. March Madness specifically. You know, the one time out of the year where betting on sports nationwide is legal, because, you know, putting $20 in an office pool is legit and doesn’t make you a degenerate gambler. But even that glorious time of year is still over a month away.
So, what is my suggestion? On Sundays run Madden demos and pretend the sports world is still up and running. Because if your highlight of the next two months is Dwight Howard getting an alley-oop from a 40-year old Canadian point guard, it’s gonna be a long couple of months.