Is It Still Football Season?

This was a weird Sunday. For as long as I can remember from September through January Sundays meant one thing - football.

Then this Sunday rolled around. I'm not an NFL Sunday Ticket subscriber (thank you, cable) and so my football choices were Packers/Rams in the morning and Raiders/Colts in the afternoon. Yawn, and yawn again.

OK, so the Raider game apparently ended up being interesting. Big deal. Would that matchup have kept you in front of the TV? Not unless you were a fan of the Raiders (no, still haven't gotten over the Marcus Allen thing) or the Colts (please).

So yesterday afternoon I found myself Christmas shopping and thinking to myself "So this is what normal people do on Sunday. Interesting."

At least we had the Warriors on in the morning and the Sharks on in the evening. I like that schedule - 5 good hours of sports as bookends to a day of being out in the world like other normal humans. Interesting.

Of course, had their been interesting matchups it would have been different. It's a testament to just how grim the NFL landscape is on a week to week basis that I put in 5 hours in front of the TV watching sports on a December Sunday and none of that time was spent watching football.

Bizarre.

At least the Sharks gave me a nice win against the defending champs to justify my time investment. The Warriors? Well, let's just say that maybe Rams/Packers wouldn't have been such a bad choice after all...