Today’s image of an empty Lambeau Field on the day many baseball teams begin their 162-game season makes us miss football season that much more. Baseball season just doesn’t have the immediacy that football season does. If your team loses the first three games in baseball, nobody much cares... you’ve got a whole bunch more to play. But if your favorite NFL team starts 0-3, the sports radio talk shows are calling for the coach’s head and speculating that the season is already “over.”
There’s nothing wrong with baseball. We just can’t wait for football season to start again. Baseball’s hold on the position as “America’s Pastime” could be debated, and is annually about this time.
What do we football fans have? We’ve got the NFL Draft coming up the weekend of April 28-29. Other than that, the schedule is due to be released shortly, and we already know that Thanksgiving’s turkey may not taste as good as it might if the Packers lose at Detroit in the early game that day.
Training Camp opens in about three and one half months.
We can’t wait.
