The best time of the year for sports is the month of October. This is due to the constant overlapping of storylines throughout the month from both professional and collegiate sports: college football, the MLB postseason, the NBA, the NFL and the NHL.
There are five sports going on and providing extremely entertaining moments to watch each and every night. The most outrageous thought of those around the sports world is that March Madness makes March the best month in sports.
`That is the lazy man’s thinking, someone who just turns on sports when it comes to the postseason. Someone who can only focus on one thing at a time. The real sports fan-mind goes straight to October, though.
I felt this, as I sat in my basement on Monday night and had three televisions going in order to be able to catch as much action as possible. Monday Night Football between the Seattle Seahawks and the New Orleans Saints was on one. The other two televisions were a revolving door between NBA and NHL games.
Tuesday night will be the World Series between the Atlanta Braves and the Houston Astros on one television and another night of switching between the NBA and NHL. The exact same will apply to Wednesday night before the football world returns on Thursday night and for the whole weekend.
The weather is perfect for this to occur this week, as the temperature has dropped and a wet pattern has sat over the area. There is no desire to go outside at night and get activities done during this weather. The only acceptable answer is to grab a blanket and cozy up for a night of sports.
This is not the case for March in Oswego. A weekend or two will be seasonably warm and the desire to get outside and socialize after a long winter is overwhelming. There is not as much time to just focus on being a sports fan. While the entire community is coming out of hiding, why would you want to be settling in? Not to go after your silly NCAA tournament bracket, but there is a minimal chance you will even win.
In October there are no brackets, there is just fantasy football, an activity in which you have a much better chance to make some money off of your friends. The mood screams football, the leaves falling screams intense playoff baseball and the curiosity of the month screams time to figure out what your favorite basketball and hockey team has under the hood this year.
So, you can have your March Madness. I will take the controlled chaos of this spooky month, as I am treated to a plethora of matchups to entertain my sports-based mind.
Some of the fascinating storylines that you should be aware of are the inaugural month of the Seattle Kraken franchise, the approaching college football playoffs and the world series turning back to Atlanta for the first time since 1999.
This wide array of sporting events to watch allows for the mind to drift, just like a fiction novel allows the mind to. Just, this is reality. One moment you are treated to a freshman quarterback trying to lead his team to a winning season, the other you are watching Jordan Eberle try to come through as the star offensive player for the Kraken. The mind chases and touches all corners of the continental U.S. and drifts into Canada at times too.
March does not have the same feeling with just the one sport going on. College basketball is great, but it does not provide what October can. Enjoy the viewing, you only have a weekend to go.
