Are you ready for some football?

Fall & specifically September brings professional and my personal favorite NCAA football. It's a tradition that I look forward to year after year, the monsoons, the cooling of AZ. I' hoping that my two beautiful girls will eventually show some interest in watching sports with their dad.

Most years I try to get a little preview of the up coming football season by attending ASU's Camp Tontozona. What a treat to drive up to the cool(er) pines just east of Payson and watch the young players of ASU build and grow into a cohesive team.

Yesterday was ASU's first regular season game, and their opponent was Temple University, who would most likely rank in the bottom 5 teams in division 1 NCAA football rankings. As such, the 'devils pasted 63 points on them, but did give up a disappointing 16 points. How can you be disappointed? Well ... the defense played GREAT ... and it's just so much fun to pitch a shutout ... probably more fun, and demoralizing for the other team, than a blowout.

The experience of the game was somewhat sad since this was the first game in a LONG time that I experienced without my friend Rob C. The group of friends that we attend the game with all wore our "Team Chambo" shirts from the Pat Tillman run to remember and honor our friend.

Tomorrow marks the 8th annual LFFL draft. What is that you say? It's the 4+ hours spent one Saturday in late August, early September where a bunch of guys get together and talk football. Eat football. Drink football. Well ... it's not that serious ... but it's a fun time where a bunch of friends from all over the US get together and have a good time making fun of each other and the silly decisions that they make when putting together a fantasy football team consisting of millionaire NFL players that each of them hope will have a BIG statistical year.

For my money - the fall is the best time of year. Football is starting up, and as an added bonus, you have some big holidays where my family gets together and shares great times!