Luckily, NFL training camps are only a month away, and football season is just over two months away. This week we do have the NBA draft, but this isn't a blue chip draft like last year's draft or the infamous 2003 draft that featured LeBron, Dwayne Wade and Carmelo, the drunken Nugget.
We have to look upon this past year and notice that all three major sports gave us title matchups that would make each sport proud. MLB gave us a World Series featuring everybody's favorite losers turned winners, the Boston Red Sox, versus the red-hot Colorado Rockies, who made and unprecedented run into the championship. The NFL gave us an undefeated New England Patriot team that got upset by the wild card N.Y. Giants in an amazing 4th quarter perfomance and the greatest play in the Superbowl yet with the amazing Helmet Catch. And the NBA Finals revisited the greatest East Coast vs. West Coast matchup with the Lakers-Celtics series that gave us a lot of drama while we watched the smug Phil Jackson and prima donna Kobe go down in flames!
On the flip side, all three sports needed an amazing championship story to help cover up some of the greatest controversies to ever face each game in the past 25 years. Baseball battled steroids with the Mitchell Report and the disputation over Barry Bonds breaking Hank Aaron's home run record. Football gave us an entire season of drama with Spygate and Bill Beli-cheat. Basketball gave us Tim Donaghy (the only crooked ref to be caught), which allowed us conspiracy theorists to finally have something to latch onto.
What an amazing 2007-2008 run we all experienced. I doubt we'll have anything close next year, but if it means we can go the season without the scandal, I can live with a Nets vs. Hornets Finals.
1 comment:
well you finally got a blog post up. from the looks of the commetns from older posts this has been highly anticipated.
well i htink bonds is a dip shi like everyone else i hope. and that ref and stern have some big nuts to do what they did! wow!
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