(S17) - PT1 - Opening Day!

[Murtsi]

The best thing about a new season is the novelty of it. It is quite similar to being able to have a new toy or a new phone. They can be almost be exact copies of one another, but the new one will always have some alure to it because no one has seen it or witnessed what it does. It doesn’t matter if it is your first season in the league, your fifth or your last, there is always some type of novelty involved in it. No season is ever the same as the one that came before it or the one that will come after it. Players develop or regress over the offseason, teams say goodbye to old faces and welcome new ones.

The other thing that is magical in a new season, is that there is hope in every team and in every locker room. Everyone starts out on the same, even and level playing field where everyone has a chance. There is none of the same gloom that you have ten weeks into a season where half the teams have lost their determination and will to live in the league. When everyone is 0-0, you can’t say that my team is better than yours or that they are worse because no one has yet shown it on the playing field. A new season is like the sun rising after a long winter and the coming of spring, where everyone is allowed to dream and that is what I am excited for on the opening day of the season