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Sullivan: Start of Camp Symbolizes Hunger & Thirst Of Cowboys Fans
Saturday, July 30, 2016 5:09 PM CDT
By Jeff Sullivan
Sullivan: Start of Camp Symbolizes Hunger & Thirst Of Cowboys Fans
OXNARD, Calif. -- The first day of training camp, the first official day of football for the Dallas Cowboys. After seven months, and honestly longer as last season was a forgone conclusion in November, of feeding our football junkie minds with endless chatter of the draft, free agency, suspensions and how the third-string defensive tackle looked coming off the ball at mini-camp, it’s the real deal.
Every day the remainder of the calendar year there’s going to be football to discuss, actual games, wins and losses, injuries, strategy, second-guessing.
No more hypotheticals. Football is such a different animal in our world of sports. The overwhelming majority of our conversation doesn’t involve the games since there are only 16 of them, which comes out to be about one every 23 days of the year. Baseball is 162 games, the NBA and NHL play 82 and soccer seemingly runs on an endless loop of matches.
Heck, we are so desperate there are fans who actually work themselves into a tizzy about the final preseason game, which features approximately 87 guys who will never again play in an NFL contest. Still, television ratings are higher than the Stanley Cup Finals or most regular-season NBA games and Twitter is blowing up over the undrafted free agent with two second-half sacks.
The hunger, the thirst for football is real, and never more so for the Dallas Cowboys. The reason for this isn’t the 24/7 news cycle and social media, although that certainly doesn’t hurt the cause, and it’s not entirely because they have never been more popular...
Good read. And as Jeff Sullivan states...if one can't be positive at the start of a new season, he should just move on...
Saturday, July 30, 2016 5:09 PM CDT
By Jeff Sullivan
Sullivan: Start of Camp Symbolizes Hunger & Thirst Of Cowboys Fans
OXNARD, Calif. -- The first day of training camp, the first official day of football for the Dallas Cowboys. After seven months, and honestly longer as last season was a forgone conclusion in November, of feeding our football junkie minds with endless chatter of the draft, free agency, suspensions and how the third-string defensive tackle looked coming off the ball at mini-camp, it’s the real deal.
Every day the remainder of the calendar year there’s going to be football to discuss, actual games, wins and losses, injuries, strategy, second-guessing.
No more hypotheticals. Football is such a different animal in our world of sports. The overwhelming majority of our conversation doesn’t involve the games since there are only 16 of them, which comes out to be about one every 23 days of the year. Baseball is 162 games, the NBA and NHL play 82 and soccer seemingly runs on an endless loop of matches.
Heck, we are so desperate there are fans who actually work themselves into a tizzy about the final preseason game, which features approximately 87 guys who will never again play in an NFL contest. Still, television ratings are higher than the Stanley Cup Finals or most regular-season NBA games and Twitter is blowing up over the undrafted free agent with two second-half sacks.
The hunger, the thirst for football is real, and never more so for the Dallas Cowboys. The reason for this isn’t the 24/7 news cycle and social media, although that certainly doesn’t hurt the cause, and it’s not entirely because they have never been more popular...
Good read. And as Jeff Sullivan states...if one can't be positive at the start of a new season, he should just move on...
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