Maybe it's the direction of programming in this day and age. Maybe I am just getting a little daft in my middle age. Maybe I'm late for the party. And just maybe the amount of television revenues being thrown about to promote said sports are the real bane of life as I now know it.

Speaking only for myself, it used to be that once football season and the Super Bowl were over and done you had a 6-8 cooling off period before you got all worked up for a new season like baseball. When June arrived you knew that basketball and hockey were completing their seasonal tenure. Come October, and the Fall Classic would roll on by and for a 2 week stretch you enjoyed watching the national pastime before wishing it goodbye until next April as the indoor sports got started again. 

Point is there would always be a break that a fan could enjoy before the next season of sport would commence. Now add things like March Madness, The Tour De France, Spring Football, the Olympics Fall and Summer, the World Cup for Soccer, an All-Star Game, a Pro Bowl, and you should have a recipe for burnout. 

Maybe this is the plan for an A.D.D nation. By over saturating the internet with scores and highlights. By making stories that are really minute petty and give them a life of their own. By increasing the magnitude of what really constitutes a story worthy of discussion, I fear that the world of sport as I once knew it is now one overblown plethora pablum for those who wish to be force-fed a mantra of stuff. 

Hockey in the states returns to finish out a six week run towards the playoffs. The Dallas Stars have an outside chance at reaching that promised land. My concern is whether or not they lost some of their fire by virtue of a 2 week for the Olympics. We'll find out soon enough. We have yet to defeat the L.A Kings this year with a string of home games in March.

Oh, and I also failed to mention that other sport that runs for nine months out of the year-NASCAR. If you want a weekly sport event to enjoy year round, you're good to go. Did I also mention the Masters in April, U.S. and British Opens for golf in June and July? Feeling burnt out yet? Yeah me neither. Thank God for A.D.D. Sports year round with no down time. Must be those television contracts. Yeah, it must be...

Yes I am spoofing just a little on the way our viewing and living habits have changed in the space of 30 years. I can recall a day as recently as 1985 where you had to wait 36 hours to get the results of west coast action. Not anymore. Information at the touch of a dial of a mouse. Amazing...

This whole tangent popped into my head as I make the trek to downtown Dallas to watch Stars hockey. Alot has changed in my lifetime since I was a teenager. Most of it for the better.

Brother Walt, Happy Birthday! 44 is the new 30. Be safe and enjoy your day. I'll call you later this day.

Over and out in Big D

Mr. Will