Moving sports moments that don't move you at all

[Brooklyn Bridge]

I have always liked the NFL more than college football, but there was a time in my life that isn't even that far removed where I would love the Saturday where I had nothing going on and just mapped out the games from 10 a.m. until midnight and didn't leave the couch. In recent times I'd say most Saturdays when I don't have anything to do I hardly even turn on the TV. There may be some background noise, or watching the end of a close game here or there, but it is nothing like it was. When my own team was playing, especially if it was a big game, man, I just couldn't wait until Saturday. It was all I thought about. That doesn't happen anymore either.

I still will have the NFL on all day, though, even if I just have one eye on it.

Sophomore year in high school, the JV games were played at 10:00 on Saturday mornings. 90 minute playing time, and by the time I showered and left school, it was just after noon. I plopped myself in front of the TV and didn't move. Those were good times

 

[Dog8Cats]

As frustrating as the NFL is in creating the release show circus, mission creep from it has created the SEC schedule announce show and a special edition of B1G live show for schedule announcement.

SEC wants its schedule release handled on ESPN like the NFL schedule release is handled on ESPN.
ACC wants its schedule release handled on ESPN like the SEC schedule release is handled on ESPN.

Some people need to get a grip.

 

[DanOregon]

I keep forgetting, is this an expanded playoff year or not? With the playoffs it really doesn't shouldn't matter if you have two tough games in back to back weeks. One loss doesn't kill you any more. And most of the best teams play in big enough conferences where you probably don't have more than two or three formidable opponents all season.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Here's a "moving sports moment that doesn't move me" ... when a member of the military returns from deployment and they engineer a big surprise reveal for his family at the game. Now, the ones where they just show up at home and the kids start crying because Mommy or Daddy is back? Those get me. But not when they drag the kids out to midfield and Dad is standing there in the mascot costume.

Like a lot of things, it was cool when they first started to do it; then it became cliche.

 

[wicked]

I keep forgetting, is this an expanded playoff year or not?

No, because no one could agree on how to split the money they would get. I guess there were scheduling concerns, too.

I was a fan of it at four. I think I’d be ok with it at eight. Twelve seems to be a stretch. Twenty-four is overkill. They are turning it into the baseball playoffs, which are about 10 days/seven games too long.

 

[mpcincal]

Like a lot of things, it was cool when they first started to do it; then it became cliche.

I still see and click on those "soldier reunion" compilations on YouTube and most of them still hit me in the feels. However, I did see one where they interviewed the soldier dad in the school before the big moment and he said essentially, "My daughter saw all the soldier reunion videos at school, and she told me she wanted one of those when I came back, so here we are." Sorry, but when these kids are requesting these moments because they saw others on TV, that's when the shark's been jumped over.