Total Access

The NFL season is here and in my opinion football is simply the greatest sport on Earth. People typically like to place baseball over football, they romanticize it and call it "America's favorite pastime" but it's nothing more than propaganda. Baseball just simply isn't close to the complex and physical game of football.

In baseball every game is like casual Friday with players wearing pants and button-up shirts. The perfect game in baseball is one where nothing happens. Baseball players can actually go on the disable list for a blister on their fingers. And professional baseball stadiums even have to give the crowd a designated time to stand up and stretch so as not to have them sleep through the end of the game.

But beyond the games themselves, the biggest thing that the NFL has on the MLB is that in football everything is an event. The NFL has perfected the art of making news out of the off-season. Once the Super Bowl winner is crowned, the league doesn't go into hibernation. There's the Pro Bowl, Free Agency, the Combine, the Draft, training camps and endless fantasy football talk, all satisfying our fix until the kick-off of a new season.

Total Access is a great read from the Walter Cronkite, or even the Pookie Anderson, of the NFL Network, Rich Eisen. It's an inside look into the event packed world of the NFL. It's loaded with hilarious stories and interesting facts. The perfect thing to tide someone over between Sundays.

Fly Eagles fly.