Sports Agony

New Year, new levels of pain.

My last hope for 2011 was the Wisconsin Badgers, the home college team. Two Hail Mary plays away from a National Championship game. One lost time out in the second half of the Rose Bowl away from overtime.

While 2012 looks much better on the American political landscape, (Presidential election and a glorious, perhaps that once in a generation opportunity at change in two branches of government) my sports forecast is dismal. Short of a serious amount of explosives and some moving vans, I don't see the Minnesota Vikings improving. (Bad joke. There is a chance the Vikings could end up in Los Angeles, even now. And that, my friends, severs my relationship with the NFL permanently.) Without the blue chip quarterback Russel Wilson returning to Wisconsin, we'll be lucky to see the field of the Raid Death to Cockroaches Bowl in Morgan City, LA. The Minnesota Twins have made no qualitative improvements to their roster and have seen the exodus of several key and much loved starters via free agency. (Kubel, Cuddyer, Nathan are just a few that leap to mind)

What do I have left? The Mississippi Surge? Our minor league hockey team in Biloxi? Spring training in baseball in six weeks. Three months and some change before the Vikings screw up their number 3 pick in the draft. Maybe Wisconsin basketball can right the ship but they're a Sweet 16 tournament team AT BEST.

sigh