The National Football League, It Trumphs All Other Sports, Even In April

At 1:00pm eastern standard time today, the NFL will release the 2008 NFL schedule. Sportscenter, on ESPN, is dedicating a 2-hour show on this subject. The show will be full of analysis on every teams good and bad aspects of their particular schedule. Talking heads will debate on the chances of different teams and critical division and rivalry matchup games. I can't wait for schedule to be released personally, as I will probably attend one or two NFL games this year.

All the hoopla and exposure is a very good indicator how big the NFL has become against the other major sports in North America. (Baseball, Basketball, Hockey, Nascar, and Golf) Compared to the other sports in the U.S., the National Football League is the 300 pound-gorilla in the room.

Here we are on April 15, the NBA playoffs are about to start, the Masters golf tournament just got over, the baseball season is just two weeks old, and we area talking about the NFL schedule. Not actual games or players, just the SCHEDULE! The season officially starts in roughly 5 months and fans are celebrating today because they will soon know which Sunday night they can get hammered while watching their favorite NFL team play the prime-time game.

This is a direct by-product of the league running and marketing a better product than the other North American sports. The MLB, NASCAR, NBA, and NHL should all take a history lesson on what the NFL has done the past 25 years to get to this points.

Thanks for reading,.....I gotta go...just 25 minutes to the schedule release......!!!