The lyrics from “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” lied to me.
I love Christmas time and everything that comes with it — except for shopping. But the most wonderful time of the year, for me, takes place during the next couple of weeks, because sports.
Enjoy the bounty of games available right now because you’ll miss them when they’re gone. The overloaded fall sports schedule is like the Super-Harvest Blood Moon we saw recently: rare and gone in a flash.
I complained a few months ago about no sports happening during the summer, but late October and early November are fun because the exact opposite is true. I don’t believe there is such a thing, but if “too many sports” was a real thing, this would be the time of the year where that applies.
I legitimately don’t know how to divide my time among the NFL, college football, the NBA, the NHL, the World Series and soccer both abroad and domestic with the MLS Cup Playoffs starting.
But I can’t think of a better way to spend my fall break than trying to maximize my sports intake while free from the responsibilities of school and work for a few days. This is the best “problem” I’ve faced in a long time.
I’ll take “too many sports” over “not enough sports” any day.
I don’t have enough screens, enough eyes or a large enough attention span to watch everything, but I’m going to enjoy as much as I can, while I can. You should too.
It’s wonderful to think that by changing the channel I could go from watching Daniel Murphy blast another clutch home run for the Mets to watching some 3-on-3 NHL overtime. A few seconds later, I could be watching the unbeaten Green Bay Packers squaring off against the unbeaten Denver Broncos.
How cool is that?
If you’re not a fan of those sports, you could wake up and watch some Barclays Premier League action early Saturday morning and follow it up with a day full of college football before watching the New Orleans Pelicans and Golden State Warriors go toe-to-toe for the second time in four days.
The possibilities are endless — for a short time, at least.
Football season always seems to end too soon. For soccer fans, the MLS season is winding down.
Baseball fans will soon have to come to grips with the reality that the spring is in a long time. And perhaps more importantly, this is the last time we’ll see Jacob deGrom’s magnificent, luscious locks as Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times tweeted deGrom said he’s cutting the flow after the World Series.
Take it all in because the perfect storm of sports will be over before you realize you’ve missed it.
Jack Woods is a 22-year-old mass communication senior from Ruston, Louisiana. You can reach him on Twitter @Jack_TDR.