Do I Dare Get Excited ...Again?

2009 New Orleans Saints Training Camp

Okay...I tried to remain mature and sensible during this long offseason...I really did! I promised myself I wouldn't flip out over this team...again! 

So, as I cautiously read the many blogs and countless articles describing the way the team has fixed what was broken..."and everything is looking good"...again, it starts to happen! It happens almost every year about this time...I try very hard to remember what it was at the end of last season that urged me to audibly declare (quite loudly)... that I won't fall for it again next year!

 But here it is...next year already and I seem to have that familiar old "Football Blues" amnesia. The question ponders me every year about this time..."DO I DARE GET EXCITED...AGAIN?

And as the time rolls along (creepingly) toward the opening of another training camp, I feel the set-up once again... the feeling that maybe, just maybe... "Hey man, this might be the year we're gonna do it! Yessss!"

It's that weird "giggly" feeling that makes me feel great just before the season comes... Like I, Italyun Stalyun, am the one who "foretold" the news first...that I, hereby advise all my scornful friends and doubting relatives of the "prophesy" about to unfold before them this upcoming year! And oh, how I would love to be the bearer of this revelation...

However, in the past, this has been unfortunately the same anxiety that usually ends up being why I painfully recollect later, that return of the depression which made me feel like such a huge "football fool" at the end of last year.

But... you never know.....maybe this year??? 

Italyun Stalyun