That Time of Year

August is almost over. The dog days of summer still at hand but on their way out ushering in the cool fall fresh air bringing the most desired prize of the year - college football :)

That's right, this weekend we will celebrate the end to the most boring time of the year for television sets across the world when USC takes on Virginia Tech this Saturday evening at 7:40pm EST (yes technically there are earlier games that day, but this is the game with the most possibility for fun and excitement - provided you don't pull for the teams that are scheduled earlier in the day). Televisions sets will again be happy. They will get to fulfill their meaning in life, their reason for existence. Fans will stare at them intently for hours as if they were the most beautiful and perfectly voluptuous woman in the world who had just lost her shirt. We will stare at them without going to the rest room for fear that we might miss a play (yes, except for those of you who have TiVo) and our absence from the TV will result in our team losing due to some weird cosmic bathroom karma.

The beginning of college football season is great. I mean, think about it. All the teams have the same record. Your team has the chance to go all the way this year. My team has that same chance. This is the euphoric time in college football where we are all winners and can all talk legit smack. From here on out we are gonna be trying to figure out what acts of supernatural intervention it will take to get our team through the BCS system and to the national championship game. Some of us would settle for a league championship. And still others would settle for a winning record. These days I'll settle for some college football. Just for the season to be here and in full swing. Because this year we are gonna beat those rivals. I love that time of year.