Optimism Week, it can't be worse than Who's Now
This week marks the beginning of fall practice for college football teams across the country. It also marks a time when lunatics across the country hope their team actually has a shot at winning. Most fans know only a handful of teams have a legit shot, but they invest all their emotions whether their team is in that select group or not.
David Jackson, the Associate Athletics Director at Appalachian State, has an idea for ESPN: take all this hope and toss it in your face until it makes you nauseous.
David Jackson, the Associate Athletics Director at Appalachian State, has an idea for ESPN: take all this hope and toss it in your face until it makes you nauseous.
ESPN has created just about every athletics-related week you can imagine. There is Feast Week, Rivalry Week, Championship Week – the list goes on as college sports junkies tune in world wide to get their fix of “weekdom.”If this idea ever comes to fruition, it must include Rachel Nichols. She says the 'N' in 'E-S-P-N' while opening her mouth. Seriously, say 'N' right now. I bet your mouth doesn't stretch wide open. Her over-exaggerated annunciation is mesmerizing. I need to watch less ESPNEWS.
Listen up Bristol, I have a new one for you. It’s called “Optimism Week.” Take about seven crews and send them all across the country during the first week of preseason football camp. The result – an over-played, over-hyped, sure-to-pump-up-even-the-longest-of-longshots series that will spell out how everyone who puts on a helmet this week has a shot to end up in the title game.
It almost seems cruel to play with fans deepest emotions (remember, I’m a Cubs fan – I know all about this). I can just see Sal Paolantonio now – standing out front of Team X’s training camp, filing the following report: “I spoke with Coach Smith today after practice and he said despite not winning a game in four years he and his staff have assembled the top recruiting class in the country and they are smelling a title run. Now, those recruits chose to sit out practice today because there was a Saved By the Bell marathon on local cable, but he says the team will be ready for the opener and ready to prove the doubters wrong. Reporting from LaLa Land – Sal Paolantonio – E-S-P-N.
