College football extended the bowl season well into the new year and the NCAA Tournament followed-suit by adding an extra week. Now, I’m officially bummed out about how much I’ve heard about the NFL this offseason. In a sports world where over-saturation is the norm, the NFL lockout has had one unintended consequence: that I had to hear about it all freaking summer. Aren’t Chris Mortensen, John Clayton, and Adam Schefter supposed to go into hibernation in the summertime? Everything is wrong with having to see them throughout May, June, and July.

Of course, the ironic part of my change of heart is that it happened while the league was officially shut down for the whole summer.

One thing I really like about sports is seasonality. The promise of a new season is one of the most exciting things, partly because I haven’t thought about a particular sport much during the off-season.

Spring training is appealing because baseball hasn’t been around for a number of months. I get excited about the Lakers early in the season because NBA teams always look a little different and new.

For my taste, looking forward to seeing how Steve Blake and Matt Barnes fit in to the rotation is made better by the surprise that Shannon Brown improved his jumper and the disappointment that Theo Ratliff has replaced Rony Turiaf as a backup post player.

In the NFL, where I don’t actually have a favorite team, there are only 16 games. The scarcity of games and weeks of the season is the NFL’s biggest asset. Every game matters so much. Just like the NCAA tournament, the NFL has cheapened its weekends by having more during-the-week games during the year, but it hadn’t reached my “sick of it” threshold before the past two weeks.

Like its former poster-child, Brett Favre, the NFL is not something I want to see on ESPN. As of now, I’m officially sick of it.

Until the first week of the NFL regular season starts, I want to see stories about the Pirates’ run. I want to see stories about NBA players signing oversees. I would love to see something about the MLS season. What I don’t want is wall-to-wall coverage of when each team reports to training camp. Because I don’t care.

Just tell me when the season starts and I’ll go over the Dave’s house for the NFL Sunday ticket, cold beverages in-tow. The ability of a fan to “make a day of it” is what has made the NFL great. Sundays will still be good. But I just don’t feel the same after this, the summer of Schefter.