Top 5 Sports Post Seasons

1. College Football: Bowls/BCS- In my head, I'm a playoff guy. HOWEVER, in my HEART, I'm a college football guy above any and all else. I want a college football playoff to crown a national champion BUT, I love the bowl system for those not in the NC mix. The bowl system gives us more, more, more by way of games to watch than a strict playoff system would. And, lets all be honest, we LOVE the debate created by the BCS. It brings about A LOT of attention and emotion.

2. College Baseball: College World Series/Omaha- I like the regional/Super Regional format as it offers some really good college baseball overall. Not to mention the Coellege World Series which, for me, is the one event that each year I feel like I'm there even though I'm watching it on TV. There is an emotional aspect by players and coaches that I've not noticed/felt at any other level of baseball. I hate they're leaving Rosenblatt and I worry that the loss of Rosenblatt will change some of the unbelievably unique atmosphere. However, as a simple post season, I can't imagine it would be passed by any below.

3. Major League Baseball: Playoffs/World Series- It was really hard for me to decide between MLB and NFL post seasons in the three and four slots. In the end, I went with the MLB post season because it offers more fluidity in that it offers weekday games. Additionally, the World Series still has a magic to it that few others have. I love football much more than baseball but, I get more on a fluid scale from MLB than the NFL offers. Additionally, as you'll read below, I feel the NFL goes too far with the Super Bowl.

4. NFL: Playoffs/Super Bowl- Some call the Super Bowl the greatest singular sporting event in America, some say the World. I'm not quite that poetic with the Super Bowl. For one, I get REALLY tired of the two week build up that merely turns into rhetoric to fill air time for NFL TV affiliates. It's simply too much: too many talking heads that build up story lines for the game that rarely come through. As for the playoffs as a whole, they're good most years and offer some good weekends, but overall they tend to be a little to cut and dry for me.

5.NCAA Basketball: March Madness- Let me start by saying I'm not a basketball fan as a whole. I pull for Georgia, and that's where it ends. However, I am not ignorant to what March Madness is as a post season event. It is exciting and it does draw me in annually for short periods of time. I love filling out a bracket and Cinderella stories as well as learning who got what seeds and who made the Sweet Sixteen, Elite Eight, and Final Four. The Championship Game itself is something I may not watch altogether.