The best thing about right now is that the NFL has a broadcast schedule for preseason games that keeps football on the screen from Thursday through Sunday. Sure, some of those games are basura, but they still trump my wife trying to watch The Real Housewives Of Some Random City each night. Live sports > reality catfights. Toss in the FIBA World Championship games airing as well and there’s just enough sports on TV to keep fans happy*. Still, it’s tough staying sane during the two longest months in sports.

“For the past several years, the end of the basketball season brings that sense of uneasiness for me, as well as other sports fans. It’s that downtime between the end of basketball season and the start of football season. Sure, there’s baseball, but until September, it’s hard to get me to care about baseball. There have been tips to survive baseball season, tips to survive until football season, and even with those, it’s still hard to deal with. Even with all the preparation, once the time comes, it all goes down the drain, and what ends up being a couple of months waiting for football to start ends up feeling like an eternity.

“Unlike others, the downtime started off surprisingly well this year. Between LeBronapalooza taking up a nice chunk of time, as well as the Rangers being worth a damn this season (I live in the Dallas area, so this means more to me, as well as folks around here), time was flying by, and there weren’t any complaints about football season needing to start right away. Of course, it’s always nice to have the season start, but there wasn’t a lot of complaining, because time was being occupied, sports-wise, and it was being done so to my satisfaction.”

Read the rest of Kenny’s “Better Late Than Early” at ETSF.

* No, baseball does not count until the playoffs and World Series.