Summertime...The Dead Zone for Sports

Let's face it, football defines sports. Sure we all enjoy filling out our brackets for March Madness and we'll watch the NBA and MLB playoffs but it's just not nearly exciting enough. Any true sports fan craves football season and knows that something is just missing when there is no football on tv. As soon as the super bowl is over, everone is trying to decide who they want their team to take in the draft or see who from their favorite collegiate team will be drafted and where. Once the draft is over, everyone is analyzing it and trying to predict who will go where in Free Agency. Come July, we're all starting to listen to what's going on in the training camps and see who the big sleeper pick will be for our fantasy team. Then we watch the preaseason, even if it's only for the first quarter, to try to determine how good our team will be this year. All this being said, we're always digging for something that will make us feel like it's football season.

My point is proven through ESPN and their following of the whole Favre/Vikings saga. So far the only thing that anyone has been able to prove is that Brad Childress has not been to Mississippi and that nobody actually knows what the heck is going on. We've seen 3 different reports of "a source close to" someone saying what one of the sides is going to do. If you ask me, it's pretty ridiculous. My opinion is that they should just shut up and let the thing play out, and then when they actually have some sort of conclusive evidence then they can be the first to report it. Until then, just accept that it's the time of year that there is very little sports news and deal with it. We all wish it was football season, and we all want to know what will happen with Brett Favre and whether he will ruin his legacy forever by going to the Vikings or if he'll remain honorable and retire, but until you have some conclusive evidence about something...let's all just stop speculating.