College bowl season is here! As you know, that’s fake enthusiasm on my part. The ridiculously unnecessary number of bowls is one of the primary reasons why I hate college football so much. Consider: there are 34 bowl games, which means 68 teams go to a bowl. That’s the same number that go to the NCAA Basketball Tournament.

Well, this week’s NFL games have certainly taken a little bit of a turn, haven’t they? To call the news about Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher “shocking” would be quite an understatement. Until the tragedy, which will put a very dark cloud over all of Sunday’s games, we were positioned for a pretty good Sunday of December football.