It’s here. Finally. I’m a one-sport fan. I used to like baseball when I was younger, but I could never get too into watching every game of a sport that plays ten thousand games a week. Or however many they play. I always forget. I like going to hockey games, but that is as much for beer and hot dogs and hanging out than the sport itself.

So, these months of off-season inactivity can be excruciatingly painful. Though, I admit, it does have its fun points. The first week or two of free agency, the weeks leading up to the draft, the draft itself, all of these are high points during the spring.

But they are poor replacements to the actual season. Heck, training camp might not be the most exciting of events, but at least I can turn on the news and catch a glimpse of the new draft picks on a regular basis. I can tune into those Sunday evening shows and see even more if I can manage to stand Babe Laufenberg’s inane pratter, cheesy production, and mucho ass kissing. (And, no, I’m not sure if that means he kisses a lot of asses, or just a few really big asses.)

Heck, if I can stand to read Mickey Spagnola’s articles, I figure I can stand listening to Babe. No offense to Mickey, but he’s a homer. I still remember how he sung Quincy Carter’s praises, talking about what a big deal it was to string together so many 200+ yard passing games and how hitting 7+ different receivers each game meant he was really starting to understand the offense, and then when Chad Hutchinson is promoted to start he immediately talked about how Carter just didn’t get the offense and Hutchinson had a better understanding. Okay, I get it, he writes for dallascowboys.com, he ain’t got that thing we call ‘unbiased opinion’. He’s there to give the company line. But, he does have great access to players, and he can give all us outsiders a little glimmer of what is going on over there at Valley Ranch.

But it is all second fiddle to the start of the season, and training camp signals that is getting pretty close.

Finally, there will be something to write about!

And, I admit, I really love preason. In fact, I think the second half of the games is much better than the first half. Hey, I usually know what the starters can do. I want to see those on-the-bubble guys. I want to pick out a few guys, like Rector and Hurd