Fall Sports

 The mornings are cooler and the air is a little crisper, its really the most wonderful time of the year (sorry Christmas). Fall time is magical. School is back in session, which is usually a huge bummer, but the sadness of the sitting in boring classes, or in my case teaching those classes, is masked by the emergence of football. There's nothing quite like waking up on a Saturday morning, open the windows, feeling the cool breeze waft through the windows, and turning on the tv to see rabid college football fans screaming at 100 year old Lee Corso. With a smile on your face, you join in on the screaming from hundreds of miles away when he and the gang pick winnings teams different than your 'expert opinion'. College football has no small amount of ownership as alumni and current students live, bleed, and die with their teams. Memories of late nights cheering from the stands enter the mind and there's really not much to compete with that. 

Before you know it, Sunday's are back too. NFL games taking up your entire Sunday and fighting off the Sunday scaries until halftime of the primetime night game when you realize you haven't used more than 5% of your brain in a good 12 hours. The juggernaut of the NFL controls American sports fans. Try as they might, there's no sports league that can compete with it. Only 1/3 of America tunes into the Super Bowl but the supposed biggest sport in the world, soccer, only had 1/7 of the world watching. I'm not a big math guy, but I'm pretty sure 1/3 is bigger than 1/7. Can't argue with stats and data. 

Football kicks into full swing and life gets even better. Baseball playoffs, at least during the week, draw a ton of eyeballs. High stakes events will always have a big following. It helps that during the week, minus Monday's and Thursday's, there's really not that much going on so tuning into a playoff baseball game is a game changer. It helps when your team is in it, being from Utah without a major league team there's a lot of transplant fans around here so anywhere you go you'll find fans from teams across the country. Braves, Yankees, Red Sox, and Dodgers will always have a strong following among others. Its not uncommon to see Mariners, Pirates, Reds, and even Blue Jays fans supporting their teams during the fall. Conversations around baseball are always to be had in the fall. 

Hold on just a little bit longer to the cooler weather and the winter sports start in late fall. Basketball and hockey start and that just adds to the excitement. Every single night there's something to watch. Even if these sports don't really have that much of a draw, they're still sports and its something to tune into. Plus the beginning of any sports season bring a strong sense of optimism that maybe, just maybe this really is the year its all going to come together and your team will go all the way. 

The fall is absolutely the best time of the year, and often gets overlooked for the spring but the biggest draw in the spring is March Madness which is a different beast and should only count in its own category. The end of baseball season is objectively better than the beginning. The players are still getting into form, the weather is usually cold and games get rained out all the time. Football is gone and you can't even see it in the distance. Let's enjoy this time of year and get ready for more. Happy fall everybody.