Super Bowl and Signing Day

In a span of seven days, two of them are among the biggest of the year for football. One offers immediate gratification for fans, the other offers hope for the future. And both of them are horribly overhyped.

Everybody watches the Super Bowl. I know this because ESPN told me so. But the Super Bowl is the worst game of the year to watch. There are more commercial breaks then game action, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman are calling the game, and every second will be sponsored by BudweiserMillerLiteFordChevyDodge. And the game itself is (more often than not) a yawner. Will this one be better than the two last weekend? Probably not. Not with two weeks for Belichick to put together a game plan.

Then there's signing day. After the Gopher's 1-11 year last year, any good news should be welcomed by a parade. And a Top 25 Rivals.com ranking certainly counts as good news. But before we start praising Coach Brewster too much, remember three things: 1)Florida State is always getting Top 25 recruiting classes and is usually Top 5, 2)these are 17 and 18 year old kids whose bodies haven't matured yet, and 3) these are football players, not rocket scientists. It's an inexact science at best. Even if they do get into school (Paging Traye Simmons) it's a crapshoot. Did they physically peak at 17(Dominique Simms)? Will they not realize that they're student-athletes(Art Smith)? But it's a step in the right direction. After a decade of having to ignore signing day because Grinnin' Glen signed a bunch of 2nd-team all conference players from Ohio, we're starting to get faster kids. And speed is the key to the new offense and "defense" here.

So with the two most over-ESPNed events of the football year coming up, where will I be? Glued to my TV on Sunday, and at the Sota Social for Signing day. It's a long time until the Spring Game.