Iknow you’ve seen it, as have I: the official countdown to the kickoff of football season. While the gridiron reigns supreme around here, Sampson County isn’t the only place it does so, and with that, it means everyone is excited about football.

I truly believe this is now America’s pastime. Not only is it thrown in our faces, but we, as a societal whole, not only want that, but long for the next time we get to see the sport happening. I don’t see people get excited for preseason basketball or hockey the way they do about football. Notice I didn’t mention baseball? That’s because there is a whole special breed of people who live for spring training baseball. No sport will ever touch that, and some sports’ regular seasons don’t even get that much hype.

But we’re in the longest sports days

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