Now What?

Today officially marks the end of the NFL season. Players who decided to go to Hawai'i and not stay home and nurse a broken ego will duke it out for conference supremacy in the Pro Bowl. I might add, this is the last year it will take place in Hawai'i. Next season it will move to the continental U.S. in Miami, much to the dismay of Ray Lewis and Peyton Manning.

No one cares about the Pro Bowl. I know I don't. I never watch it and I probably won't watch it today either. So what we have now is what I like to call as the sports "dead period." I'm huge on college football and baseball, neither one of which is seeing much action now. My fantasy baseball league won't have our draft until March, which gives me approximately four weeks of watching college basketball and the NBA.

I attempted to watch the NASCAR Bud Shootout last night. When that didn't work out I ended up watching Zack and Miri Make a Porno with my wife. Chew on that one for a bit for things to do on a Saturday night.

In any event I do have F1 racing starting soon, and hopefully they start broadcasting all the races in HD now that I have the Speed channel. I never thought I'd become one of those HD snobs that I hated so much, but once you regularly watch shows and movies in HD it's hard to go back.

Adding to the anxiety of waiting for another season of college football, which is a mere seven months away, was purchasing my Spring Game tickets for my beloved Huskers. Who knew that buying tickets to travel a couple hundred miles to watch practice would get me as excited as it does.

Yesterday was nearly 70 degrees in Kansas City. Does anyone else find the yo-yo weather this winter to be a little disturbing? I'm not one of those greenie freak out people, but walking my dog in shorts and a t-shirt was a little odd. Especially considering it was the first weekend in February and not the middle of April.