What's a Guy To Do?

So it just hit me, while I was perusing ESPN.com for the latest news...football season is nearly over. With only a handful of teams still playing, there isn't much news to read - just a bunch of stories about crummy teams firing their coaches and sportswriters making up stories about how many times "regular season rematches" occur in the playoffs because they have absolutely nothing better to talk about.

As I noticed this, I realized that it's only going to go downhill from here. Soon, football will be over and there will be absolutely no news on that front. And the hockey season is all but cancelled at this point. That leaves me with basketball. Uurgh. I'm not impressed. It's as if the long season of summer baseball has extended into my once coveted land of NHL playoffs. *Sigh*

On a side note, what gives with people walking up to a crosswalk, pressing the "Push this to cross" button, and then proceeding to cross the street immediately, without waiting for the lights to change and get a "Walk" signal? Does it make them feel better about crossing when they shouldn't? If you press the button, does that give them more of a right-of-way? If someone has to slam on his brakes because they were crossing the road when they shouldn't have been, can they then yell at the driver, "Hey A$$HOLE! I pushed the G$#-D@#% button!"? If you're going to cross the road, just bloody cross the road and be sure to look both ways like your momma taught ya.

Yeah, so, ummm...those two topics were related...really.