Does the rest of the sports world suck so badly that we need to discuss spring games?
Amidst the awesomeness of the NBA and NHL playoffs, the MLB regular season, and ESPN’s insistance that we discuss the draft for 30 minutes a day for a month before the draft, I saw way too many highlights of spring football games. My stance on spring games has always been to ignore them; it’s not a real game. The contact is limited, especially for the quarterbacks, and for every great play that is made, it means that someone on the other side of the ball fucked up. Someone must care about it, which is why over 93,000 people attended the game in Tuscaloosa, and over 60,000 attended the game in South Bend. There must be something to it. This is the number of games I need to win to make $4 Million next year. And the spring game counts! Whoopeeeeeee! Then I saw the highlights on ESPN, and two things caught my eye: 1) Jimmy Claussen went 3 for 7 for 23 yards. The newest pickle from the Claussen brand is looking more like this year’s versioon of Mitch Mustain than Joe Montana. Promising this
