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Washington Post
Why I’m
dreading the start of football season
By Colbert I. King
As far back as I can remember, the start of NFL training camp has
brought on chords of excitement akin to the anticipation felt the night
before Christmas. Not this year.
No longer am I looking forward to training camp news or the weeks of
exhibition games leading up to the start of the regular season in
September.
No more am I impatiently waiting for the daily tidbits of news out of
training camp that convince me that the coming season will be better
than the last, that this is the season when so-and-so player comes into
his own, that such-and-such team/coach/player stages a comeback and
that it all will be worth the expense of my DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket
subscription, which has brought me live game coverage of all NFL teams,
every Sunday, for at least the past five years.
Not this time around. This year, I’ll just take it as it comes.
Something has gone out of the game.
Where to start?
The answers probably say more about my advanced stage in life than
about the National Football League. But as Popeye said: “I yam what I
yam.”
And I am, among other things, scandal weary...
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