And. Here. We. Go.

Ladies and gentlemen start your engines. No no, not talking about NASCAR, I don’t have a broke down car in my front yard or a severe enough of a tan line to be an expert on stock car racing. I’m talking about the best 2 months of the year that have come upon us, November and December. There are many many reasons why these two months dominate the year. First of obviously is the birthday or a certain awesome man…I mean I know he’s a big deal but I never thought Ryan Moats birthday would really make November the month it has come to be. There’s also the greatest holiday ever in December (boxing day obviously) and Christmas music for two months. Just a little sidebar here, people who say November is too early to listen to Christmas music fall into the following categories: 

A. “Too cool” to listen to it which means are inherently tools.

2.  Don’t have enough Christmas music to last them for two months. (You can only hear Winter Wonderland by Amy Grant so many times)

Thirdly. Can’t hear the bell anymore and don’t “believe” in Santa, whatever that means.

D. Are dumb and have a scrooge like factor to them…but not the scrooge at the end of the play, the guy at the very beginning who everyone dislikes. 

Anyway I digress, since this is a sports blog (if you can even call it that) I am going somewhere with this. November and December happen to be the best months of sports that we get all year as well. Don’t believe me? Well then you’re probably the guy listening to Tik Tok by Ke$ha instead of Merry Chirstmas, Happy Holidays by N*Sync.

Let’s begin with the obvious; we have the most sports going on during this time. College football, college basketball, high school football, high school basketball, NFL, NBA, and NHL are all being played during these times, and in my opinion most of them are in some of the best part of their schedules.  

Let’s begin with NCAA football. The BCS championship is in January, not December, along with all the other BCS bowl games, I hear you. However, think about what those games mean. Yes the BCS championship game crowns the victor at the end of the season, but until we go to a playoff (2014 I believe) the other BCS games truly mean nothing. A bowl game isn’t a playoff game, and in the end it really means nothing. It’s a way to reward players, coaches, fans, and sponsors for the effort they put in during the season. The truly great games are the ones that are before the bowl games, the ones that decide which team goes where. These tend to be the last 2 games of the conference schedule and all the conference championship games. You truly see the players taste that championship, and in many cases get to see rematches of already great games throughout the season. It’s these games I love to watch so much more than the bowl games because they matter.

Next to NCAA basketball, now many people may believe the best time is in March, I am one of those people as well, but excluding that tournament, the best games are in November and December. These are when you get matchups that might happen in the tournament. You get the Big 10 ACC challenge, Gonzaga palying a ridiculous non-conference schedule, and you get to see teams like Kentucky, Pitt, Syracuse, and tons of other great schools play the best teams they play all year. 

NFL, now obviously the playoffs and the SuperBowl are the best, that’s a no brainer, but just like college football here are teams that are fighting to get into the playoffs playing huge divisional games down the road. Don’t think I have a valid point? Look at the last two SuperBowl champs, the Packers and the Giants, both went 9-7 in the regular season and had to win their last game (in the Giants game the last 2) to even have a chance to make the playoffs. The playoff pictures are shifting around and those final few weeks in December you somehow become best friends with that weird guy at work with the mustache just because you know he has DirecTV and NFL Sunday Ticket (then all of sudden once the playoffs roll around you don’t seem so interested in his in house art studio or his kid that seems to see you as a jungle gym not a human being…hmmm wonder how that happens). 

NBA, the season begins. I know most people aren’t as big of NBA fans as I am but I love the NBA. Here you get a feel for how teams really are going to be. Its early enough in the season where there aren’t a whole lot of injuries and the guys are still playing all four quarters…wish I got paid to only “really” perform for a fourth of my work day. Now the playoffs are obviously the best time but just the beginning of the season gets me as excited as a teenage girl if they came out with a movie where Twilight meets Justin Beiber and they save Selena Gomez from the evil Rebecca Black on Friday and then all go to Katy Perry’s house and sing Lady Gaga while watching the Bachelorette…yea MORE excited than that. 

NHL, well highlights are fun to watch...even though there may not be any this year. Barry Melrose will still go on SportsCenter and do highlights for games that didn’t even happen…that’s how good he is. PS if hockey doesn’t start I’m anticipating Canada goes crazy and may just go absolutely nuts on the world…I think that’s what the Mayan calendar was referring to when they said the world will end in 2012. 

In these two months, we have all those sports, all on TV, all over the news, every day. We also have English Premier League Soccer too if you’re into that (I am). Not a day goes by that you can’t turn on SportsCenter and be entertained for literally 4 hours, and the Top 10, oh the Top 10, it’s no longer overweight baseball players falling to make a catch, it’s actually good plays. You have football games on Thanksgiving, basketball and football on Christmas, high school football championships, you’re families together, Santa comes, its cold outside so you just stay in and watch the games, you have tons of food, presents, fantasy football champions crowned, Santa comes, Barkely’s back on TNT, Santa comes, and Christmas music. Need I say more, it’s truly is the “most wonderful time of the year”. Enjoy it, because before you know it it’s a Tuesday in July and the top slot on SportsCenter is a highlight of the Marlins and Astros game where Houston won 4-2.