Are you ready for some football?
I love it when the calendar rolls around to the first week of August, for several reasons, one of which is the start of serious football talk. I am not talking about the off-season banter, but the real hardline examination of football, from the High School level all the way to the NFL. Guys and Girls around the country are getting their favorite team jerseys and hats out, checking the schedule to see when training camp starts, and when the games start for real. Houston is no different from any of the other 30 (New York counts only once) NFL cities included. We are sitting around looking at the players who were drafted, the players we traded for, those we signed as free agents, as well as those who have moved on to other teams or careers. We look with anticipation for that first Sunday of the season when all teams have the same chance of reaching the Super Bowl. Then we watch and cheer and scream, and cry, and call the referees names, blame the bad coaching, call the GM an idiot for picking that player, or a genius for drafting that kid in the third round who turns out to be a Pro Bowl receiver. This is the season of eternal optimism and hope, all of which can be swallowed up and destroyed quicker than David Carr trying to avoid a sack. The Chronicle is one of the best at covering our local football team, as well as the NFL in general, so I will not be sitting here looking to bash the articles that are written over the next few weeks; however, I will be posting links to each good story so you can follow the Texans and their quest for respectability in the NFL this year.
Megan Manfull's Training Camp primer
I will be posting on Sundays my personal commentary on each Texans game.
Posted by bweldon @ 07/23/07 01:59 PM | Technorati | Comments (1)
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