12 Reasons to Love the New Season

A friend on Facebook posted a link to a trailer for the EA Spors NCAA 12 that comes out this summer.  It got me so pumped up I had to scribble a quick off-season blog post.  Apparently this year EA has included more of the pre-game rituals for the teams, including our boy stabbing the field with the sword.  Take a look:
EA Sports Trailer

One very enthusiastic USC blogger wrote of the highlight reel:

"So tell me NCAA.  What does it say about your ability to sanction when EA Sports drops more Trojans in this teaser than Achilles did in the f**king Iliad?  It says YOU CAN’T SANCTION THE ENDZONE OR OUR PIXELLATED ASSES. "

I could write this collumn for 10 years and never come up with a line as brilliant as "drops more Trojans than Achilles did". 

March Maddness is over, the NBA and NHL playoffs are awesome (except when the Kings blow a 4 goal lead), and campus spring games are peaking this week.  But after the Lakers win their latest championship, we will be dragged ino the dead zone in sports, with nothing to do but tend the garden, clean the barbeque, and wait until the end of August. 

There are many things to look forward to this season: the first Iowa - Nebraska game, Saturday mornings with Chris Fowler and the crew, and watching Ohio State try to play without Terrel Pyror and Coach Tressel.  But the newly expanded Pac-12 is really turning me on.  The first conference game will be Utah at USC on Saturday, September 10th.  No, I am not going.  But one of my nurses is (he's from Utah, but we'll forgive him for that).  Our annual Bay Area Game will be a Thursday night affair against Cal on October 13th.  That just happens to be the first day of the American College of Emergency Physicians conference in . . wait for it . . . San Francisco, CA.  Thanks, guys; I appreciate you planning your conference around my football travel schedule.  USC's first of many glorious roadtrips to the Rocky mountains will be Novemeber 5th at Colorado.  We might even get some skiing in while we're there. 

The NFL continues to talk lockout.  I couldn't be more thrilled.

With 2 new PAC teams, 1 new Big-10 team, and all the color, triumph, and pagentry that is college football, who needs the pro game.  Besides, without pro games underdog poolers will be able to choose three college games every weekend.  That way, I can be wrong about three informed choices rather than wrong about two and get one random NFL pick. 

Fight On and see you in August,

Hans