Welcome to my world. I am starting this blog so I can write down and express my thoughts and feelings about one of my passions. I not only love sports; I live sports. Much to the dismay of my wife, some family members and friends, I plan my days, weekends and even vacations around sports. I also coach a young basketball team and try to play ball often. I do have a life, a career and enjoy other hobbies and activities but many of those can be scheduled or controlled by me.
As a diehard 49ers, Knicks, and Yankees fan (in that order), I always have something going on and something to listen for on sports-talk radio. Not much is more important than Sunday football. Since I am a fan of an out-of-town team, I have had DirecTV’s Sunday NFL Ticket since its inception. Football is my favorite sport and I follow it like a religion. My typical Sunday includes approximately 15 hours of football beginning at 9:00 AM with “Mike Francesa and the NFL Now,” a radio program on The Fan, and ending with the same host in “Miked-Up” at around midnight - with Sunday NFL Countdown, Fox/CBS pre-game shows and of course 3 courses of games in between.
Basketball and baseball are slightly different. It is impossible to watch all games and follow all teams. I watch just about every Knicks and Yankees game (thank you to the person who created Tivo/DVR) and follow many other NBA games. I love the Knicks and am extremely optimistic about their chances. As for the Yankees, I have been a season ticket holder since 2004 (previously in the RF Bleachers and now in the upper deck behind the plate).
What I will focus on with this blog:
1. NFL game previews/recaps (for select games), NFL picks/best bets
2. Knicks recaps for many games + random NBA thoughts and some picks
3. Yankees thoughts
I have no idea how many people, if any will even read this blog but who knows. I began reading Peter Abraham’s Yankees blog beginning earlier this year and I think it is very insightful and worthwhile. Thus far I have only found one Knicks blog that I thought was worth reading (by Mike Daugherty) and I hope to add to that. I am loaded with information (sometimes completely useless) as I listen to sports radio throughout the day and there are few people that I talk to whether it is with family, friends, colleagues and even clients where sports are not a usual and frequent topic of discussion. I ask though that if you do see this (and if you like it of course) please spread the word.
Before I close, there are those who tell me that I shouldn’t care so much about sports because there are more important things in life. While that is 100% true – sports is theatre. Sports is entertainment. Of course it is not life and death nor truly important in the long run. But it does offer an escape from everyday life into another world – one filled with anticipation, advanced performance, camaraderie, controversy, drama, passion, excitement and unforgettable moments.
And luckily in my world it never ends.
