OVERREACTIONS SZN

 This is the greatest time of year for sports fans.


OK, that is complete hyperbole. It cannot match the spectacle of the NBA Finals, World Series, Super Bowl, or well, any major sporting event. However, today is… one of the 365 best days of the sports calendar.


Why? A. Do some research on how calendars work. B. It’s the most hopeful time of year for NFL and NBA fans, as they get to see their young talent shine in low-stakes matches. When a guy doesn’t perform in a big game, there’s not much of a defense one can make. In the pre-season, there is an entire Noah’s Ark filled with excuses all about why your top pick couldn’t perform. But when they show up and pass that oh-so-sweet “Eye Test,” there is no better feeling in the world. You just saw your guy perform in the highest level of their sport, and there’s no taking that away.


Also, this is a great time to deploy my favorite phrase in the English language (although it’s a term known in every tongue from Chinese to Gaelic): SZN. Pronounced See-ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ-N, even when writing about something semi-lame, like overreactions from meaningless sporting events, “SZN” can save the day and take it to the next level


With that in mind, here are my Top Ten Overreactions from Summer League/NFL PreSZN:


  1. DAVION MITCHELL IS THE GREATEST BASKETBALL PLAYER EVER

  2. TREY LANCE AND JUSTIN FIELDS ARE BOTH THE GREATEST FOOTBALL PLAYER EVER

  3. Cameron Thomas is going to drop 70 in a loss in the NBA

  4. The Hall Of Fame Game is incredible. I think bad football shows the magic of the NFL more than good football. A few people watched Mahomes/Brady? NBD; that’s par for the course with A+ talent and a prestigious championship. But selling people on a game that features whatever the opposite of household names are, with none of them playing very hard? That takes a special combination of a superb location and a crippling hunger for your sport by the viewing public

  5. I’m a little bit tempted to get the NBA League Pass Team Pass for the Orlando Magic just to prove a point about how much I love watching Jalen Suggs. This would be a symbolic gesture, because in around 20 minutes I would remember that I’m watching the Orlando Magic

  6. The Trevor/Travis Clemson/Jags tandem would’ve produced highs like those of Dabo’s Tigers, sheerly through the hazy art known as chemistry, and nobody can convince me otherwise

  7. Payton Pritchard is making me consider spending thousands of dollars to pay a questionable pseudo-scientist to wipe my skepticism of his prospects as a pro from my mind. The worst part? I LOVED him in college, but thought he just wouldn’t translate

  8. Huge year for Mitch Trubisky in ways that have absolutely nothing to do with his performance and everything to do with luck. If Josh Allen gets hurt and Mitch gets a chance, he’ll celebrate his 35th birthday preparing for another year of top-tier NFL QB play. But if he doesn’t get the opportunity, he’ll be sent to the depths of the Land Of Backups, a place one can never return from

  9. I’m going to spend every second between now and October 19th convincing myself Kyle Guy will make the Dubs’ roster

  10. Just the small doses of preseason football with fans makes me SO UNBELIEVABLY PSYCHED for high-stakes action with fans cheering them on. Enjoy the season, folks. Soak up every second of Nebraska/Illinois, Hawaii/UCLA, and if you’re feeling ambitious and/or are a miner (Texas El Paso alum or digger), UTEP/NMSU. I can’t wait.

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