Tell me you don’t feel the same way.
I’m definitely ready for football to start. I’ve ridden the high from Division III basketball as much as I can. I love major league baseball, but that’s not the same. But it’s been almost five months since the Stagg Bowl, and football needs to start.
It’s the worst time of the year. The NFL Draft is done. Schedules are basically finished. Graduations litter the May schedule … and it’s still more than three months until kickoff!
Don’t get me wrong — I enjoy the opportunity to spend extra time with my kids, especially with the newborn taking up a lot of our time. The lawn needs to be cut. The kids like to play outside. I need to get the brakes checked and some tires replaced after putting another umpteen hundred miles on the cars during the football and basketball season. But it’s a long time until kickoff and I’m sitting here ready to go.
Let’s skip June and July and get it on.
Amen, Pat! It will get even worse in a couple of weeks when the NBA finals are over. Nothing but golf and Nascar after that, LOL! You may want to consider a trip to an AIFL football game though. Kid and myself went to the Canton/Richmond game and it is a good product. Also was nice to see 5+ D-III players and coaches on the AIFL field with past NFL & D1 players. It was my first arena game, ” a cross b/w WWF & Hockey with a football”, very little rushing and alot of fastpace passing and scoring. Any poster who gets a chance should jump on the opportunity, especially to fill the void until August.
Pat,
Why don’t you just buy a copy of Linfield’s championship DVD and watch it over and over again until the 2005 season starts up.
That would get any D3 fan though the slow season. 🙂
Personally, I don’t know what Pat’s talking about.
Without the offseason, when would I find time to:
1 – Watch all those episodes of “Mutant-X” that I Ti-Vo’d on Saturday afternoons when I was at games.
2- Rearrange all last season’s media guides alphabetically…then by order of record…then by number of syllables.
3 – Make sock puppets to re-enact my favorite games from the UMAC season.
4 – Sketch out possible webpage designs for D3UltimateFrisbee.com.
5 – Watch the Mets lose over…and over…and over…
Pat – Is that picture you used above of an Emory & Henry game? 🙂
Pat,
Cat11 beat me to the punch. But along with the 2004 highlights there is a lot of extra raw footage and a segment showing Cat football from the last 40 something years. Plenty of football to watch
This may come as a surprise to you, but not everyone is a Linfield fan. That might keep you warm all winter and cool all summer but it’s one day of entertainment at most for the rest of the planet.
I live 2832 miles from Linfield, Oregon … yet I’m still a proud owner of a 2005 Division III Championship Linfield t-shirt 🙂
Four words, Pat: Revenge of the Sith. 🙂
Well, I have softball and my daughter to keep me occupied. That, and tweaking my power rating formula. Oh, and work..whatever that is.
Pat,
Wait…..not everyone is a Linfield fan?
I have two suggestions on how to make till the start of the new season.
You can start your own d3football.com fight club!
1st RULE: You do not talk about FIGHT CLUB.
2nd RULE: You DO NOT talk about FIGHT CLUB.
3rd RULE: If someone says “stop” or goes limp, taps out the fight is over. (Kind of like the Linfield/Rowan game this past year.)
etc, etc, etc….
or
You can take the whole off season and answer all the questions that KennethK as asked on post patterns over the past month.
nevermind…..both of those ideas stink. Who really wants to watch Gordan monkey stop Pat Cummings?
Cat11:
That would just people another reason to confuse Brad Pitt with me. 😛
Hey Pat,
How many DIII schools announce their recruiting class for the next season?
I just saw this news release on Centre’s website and thought that it’s odd to have a press release on recruits when there are no LOI’s in DIII:
http://www.centre.edu/web/athletics/football/news_archives/recruitclassfall05.htm
Ehh, actually that’s not all that unusual. Schools are permitted to comment on incoming recruits in Divsion III as long as they have paid their deposit.
Yeah,
I like the “off” in offseason, but I love football too.
As far as copies of the DVD, someone e-mail me at keith@d3football.com. I’ll have to clear a space next to my VHS of the PLU title and every Stagg Bowl since.
Oh, the ability to have them ALL on DVD … (Wonders what ESPN would charge for fault footage they consider useless, for sure…)