How dominant football has become

I have decided, to keep my blog spots short and sweet, due to the short attention span of people, including myself.

The four traditional major sports are baseball, hockey, basketball, and football. Now with the NASCAR, some people say five, but for my point it does not matter. Football has become the most powerful and media driven sport in America. Naysayers may claim the other sports get their fair share, but that really isn't.

Fact 1:
In the past two weeks my brain has been inundated with numbers from the combine, and the rise and fall of prospects, and for once I agree with Jim Rome. The NFL Combine is really a media contrived event. Football is not a game that can be measured using shuttle drills and 40 yard dash times. Troy Williamson, Manny Wright, Charles Rogers, and even as far back as Tony Mandarich can attest to that point. Football is a game of intagibles, and no part of the poking and prodding and scribbling at the combine can ever project that through tests.

Fact 2:
Through the DirecTV package, fantasy football, and of course popular demand. Football has grown to dwarf all the other sports as far as media coverage, media frenzy, and media scrutiny. I understand that ESPN has a schedule to fill, and watching Trey Wingo throw it out to Todd McShay live in Indianapolis for more analysis about people who ran a 4.3, and bench pressed 225 pounds 18 times is important to some people. I know Roger Goodell must love his life right now. But ESPN needs to lay off the hour long updates on Hashmarks about who has been recently signed. But, I understand football has become the most popular sports.

Fact 3:
As a real-live, in-the-flesh sports fan, I am concerned about whether the Celtics are going to hold off the Pistons for the number 1 seed in the Eastern Conference, or who the prohibitive favorite out west is. I want to hear Dickie Vitale make my ears bleed with hype about March Madness, and I even love to listen to Barry Melrose, who is by far the guy on ESPN who wins the award for ESPN On-Air personality who most single men fantasize having a beer with.

I love football as much as the next man, but as a sports fan, I am more interested in the sports where something is actually at stake, and some sort of highlight will be created in commemoration of them. Not some talking heads with inside sources telling me they are worried Randy Moss won't sign with the Patriots.

Save the speculation, focus on the sports at hand. Its hard enough to navigate that goddamn website!

Regards,
Fan Michael