Tully Tuesdays Volume 23. Sweet Sweet Football

We’ve made it. Almost. Thursday night kicks off a string of 26 straight weeks with at least some form of American Football on television every weekend until the Super Bowl. As American Poet and icon Hillary Duff once remarked, this is what dreams are made of.

This is the best part of the year. We’re close enough to football to feel it, there’s still a few weekends of golf and beach time to get you through the work week before September when the real action gets going. As I marked about a month ago, it’s all great vibes until one of your star players blows our their ACL and sends a fanbase into frenzy, which of course happened to the Cowboys this weekend in a non-contact drill.

Now I don’t expect most people to know who Sam Williams is but there was a very good chance you were about to find out. Training camp is necessary, but it seems like each team gets dealt one or two of these a year. It sucks. I can’t imagine what he must be going through going into a year where he was going to play more than ever before and set himself up to make some serious cash.

This Thursday is the Hall of Fame game, which is objectively very dumb. It’s cool to have the weekend festivities but there’s not really a large need to have 2 teams start camp early for a scrimmage and then have the rest of the league wait another week to play. The Hall of Fame Game should be at least this upcoming Monday or a Standalone Thursday game before a weekend of other games.

But CJ Stroud and Caleb Williams probably won’t play, the novelty will wear off quick and people will fire up the PlayStation to take control of their Dynasty pretty quick.

On that topic, do we think there’s tension at NBC over the release of CFB 25? There’s a slim chance that the male demographic 18-39 are spending much time at all during this month. I was online last night taking the Texas Longhorns to back to back National Championships trying to prove my value as a CEO Coach to my Alma Mater in Columbus after my rise from Louisiana Tech, and I had 11 friends online playing, all 11 Playing NCAA College Football 25. There is zero shot any of these guys have watched a second of the Olympics outside of working hours.

Working on a baseball report for Thursday’s Lab of Data Newsletter, trying to find what the new Mendoza Line is for baseball players now that averages are universally down and probably irrelevant. I hope the Red Sox make a move and find a guy who just mashes bombs all day, particularly off of lefties. I wish I cared more, but Baseball knows what’s coming.

If you’ve made it this far you deserve to see what kind of stones Head Coach Tully Tuesday has. National Championship down by one. Just scored. A lot of guys kick the Extra Point and take their chances in OT. Not this guy

Til Next Week.

TT