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College Football: I Can Wait Until Kickoff…

Senior Writer Written on July 06, 2008

Yeah, that’s right. There’s no missing apostrophe “t” in that headline.

The LSU Tigers finished the 2007 season as the National Champions for the second time in five years. In most years, I am chomping at the bit for the college season to start—but not this year.

Someone mentioned to me last week there were less than two months until football season, and my reaction was, “Already?”

In most years, people that know me would ask if I had taken any blows to the head recently. In fact, I’m one of those guys who watches the kickoff countdown ticker while salivating uncontrollably (and unattractively I might add).

Usually there are some fixes to help me get by. College basketball and football recruiting tides me over for the first few months. College baseball keeps my cravings at bay a little.

But then comes June. I have to wait a month for EA Sports' NCAA Football to come out and occupy my thoughts throughout the month of July.

But then comes August. Stupid never-ending August! August is the Christmas Eve to September’s Christmas morn. You have to relive your childhood all over again back when waiting for Christmas day felt like a slowly unfolding agony. There’s so much hype and so much buildup for both football season and the holidays.

Of course, I never had ESPN predicting what I’d get for Christmas or how they thought the turkey would turn out the next day—although it makes me chuckle to think back and set Brent Musberger and Kirk Herbstreit on play by play for my gift opening.

Brent: And little Justin tears into another box. Uh oh, this gift looks a little soft. This one’s not going to be a toy.

Kirk: Oh no, it’s a sweater!

And it would replay over and over like a tailback tearing his ACL. And during slow motion the following exchange would take place:

Kirk: Wow, Brent, this couldn’t have turned out any worse for the little guy.

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