Auburn football begins fall practice this Thursday, August 4th, and quite honestly it snuck up on me. Maybe it's the entirety of everything else going on, but perhaps we're also getting stretched a little thinner by other sports at the same time.
When I was growing up and coming of age years and years ago, the start of football season was the paramount event each year. School didn't start until the last week in August, and you got eased back in with Labor Day Weekend right out of the gate. Plus, for the most part, football was the event around Auburn's campus, since we didn't get to take much joy from baseball or basketball on a regular basis.