The Worst Sports Sunday of the Year

Posted: January 29th, 2007 | Author: Zim | Filed under: Babble, NHL | No Comments »

Tiger wins again…Big Surprise…

Don’t Care…

…A White Canadian dude is the best player in the NBA?…

Still Don’t care…

…And Roger Federererererersomething is good at tennis…

REALLY Don’t Care.

by Mike Zimmer, Bored into submission

Not even NCAA basketball could save this Sunday.   I flipped around to see what hard wood action might actually be on to see nothing of interest what-so-ever.   I was so bored, I turned into my father and have been on a History Channel bender.   Intermitantly flipping over to the NFL Network to watch the Super Bowl Highlights Marathon.   I could bare no more after watching both Cincinnati Bengals Super Bowl losses in XVI and XXIII.   One can only take so much Joe Montana ripping out your heart…AGAIN.

This is by far the worst sports Sunday of the year.   And no matter how much crap-o-la that you try and sell me about Tiger, Steve “Don’t call me Rick” Nash or some Swiss master of the tennis ball (or Predator look-a-like Williams sister on the women’s side) being an attractive option, I will NEVER watch.

So what the hell are we to do?   And what the hell happened to a few cold Sunday stand-by’s?   Well, the NFL and ESPN bought up some major stakes in the Arena Football League and in their great wisdom didn’t want to interfere with their mainstay programming.   For the NFL, that means  interupting coverage of the Bears  arriving  at the  airport in Miami and for Sports Bore Leader, cutting into their surely high rated coverage of Bowling.

Meanwhile, our friends over at the NHL are so smart they scheduled their All-Star game on a  Tueday night in Dallas instead of taking full advantage of a vacant Sunday where football and the college basketball schedule were absent.   Smart fella’s!   Real smart!   In fact, the NHL’s All-Star game ratings were down a whopping 76%.   More over, did you know that they  did actually have programming on  THIS Sunday?   Yeah,  late today while flipping  past the infomericals to the History Channel I did see the final few moments of the NHL’s  debut on NBC.   Nice promotion of that hockey geniuses.

If it were not for an actual trip out to a hockey game on Friday night (along with several adult beverages), the Senior Bowl on Saturday afternoon and the Buckeyes winning but almost blowing a 20-point half-time lead against Michigan State Saturday Night, this would have been a complete and total lost weekend when it comes to sports.  

With the absence of sports worth watching or talking about, there is a void in my desire, ambition and interest in posting anything.    Keep coming back  despite this fact, as I will try to come up  something, anything to help us get  by until we can chat up  the NFL  Combine and draft stuff, the reporting of  Pitchers and Catchers to spring training site,  the coming of March Madness and of course all the minutia that is crossing my mind at anytime.    

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