The Packers won the Super Bowl and Aaron Rogers played brilliantly. Even with at least four bad drops by his receivers, Rogers finished SBXLV with a passer ratting of 111.5. Normally we'd have the fantastic Pro Bowl to look forward to but now all we have to look forward to is the Scouting Combine, NFL Draft and pending NFL Lockout 2011...coming to a city near you soon! Brilliant idea to choke the Golden Goose.
So without football to watch, what should sports fans tune into?
Why not the NBA? A better question I have is should I?! For the last 5+ years I have found the NBA game completely unwatchable. It has become a league of a few superstar teams and a bunch of nobodies. Quick, name a player in the Eastern Conference not on the Celtics, Bulls, Heat, Magic or Knicks. That's what I thought. Can you even name another team in the East?
How about College Basketball? It's on TV all the time, so you actually have to try in order to not see it. While I believe College is superior to the Pros because it is a team game, its season seems to drag on for too long. That said, even though I won't have watched a single game during the regular season, March Madness is must-see-TV at our house. College Basketball owns the entire month of March...but we've still got a month to go to get there.
NASCAR's about to start, how about a little racin'? Full disclosure, I'm a Tony Stewart fan and have been so for 12 years now, but even I think racing doesn't translate well to TV. Unfortunately it is a sport that needs to be seen in person to appreciate fully. Sitting at Daytona and watching the entire field of 43 cars complete 2.5 mile laps in less than 50 seconds is unbelievable. In person it's unreal to see, on TV it looks like fast bumper to bumper traffic.
Should I even mention Soccer? I enjoy the beautiful game but America doesn't really enjoy finesse sports. The MLS is a much more physical version of soccer than what Europe plays, but it's still roundly ignored...unless it's the World Cup we're talking about.
Hockey's more physical, how about that sport? The lockout set that sport back numerous years and I think some Americans hold a grudge against hockey because it was invented in Canada...I just made that up, but it sounded plausible didn't it?
I guess we'll all just have to look forward to pitchers and catchers reporting next week and the debates of whether Albert Pujols will sign an extension before Spring Training and how old Albert really is.
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