Fall is here and so is football but that's not all. How about the Major League Baseball Playoffs in October and the start of hockey season too. For sports fans, no doubt, the favorite time of the year. I like the summer-weather, golfing, cold beverages, vacation time, etc. but there are not many things that can beat a sporting event on chilly fall evening. Some of my favorite events I've covered in my years as a sportscaster is playoff baseball in October in Cleveland. How about visiting the Otters training camp in late August. 85 degrees outside in Jamestown, New York. 45 degrees inside the ice rink. Only covering sports can you appreciate the feeling and SMELL of hockey in late August.

Took a trip to Happy Valley to cover the Penn State-Notre Dame game in early September and what an event. I grew up in the shadows of Beaver Stadium, went to school at Penn State and nothing makes me more feel more at home than being at Beaver Stadium for a Penn State football game. The smell of food from the tailgaters, the roar of the crowd, the blue and white Lions uniforms and JoePa with pants rolled up to the ankles, just bring back childhood memories. I attended my first Penn State Football game when I was 10-years old, worked at Beaver Stadium for two summers while on the Penn State baseball team, ushered at Beaver Stadium when I went to school at Penn State and a few years after leaving and now go back and catch a few games every season. I remember Jack Ham and Franco Harris playing for Penn State, remember watching John Capeletti during his Heisman Trophy season run over and around people. It's been in my blood my entire life. People ask me to name my favorite NFL football team and I surprise them when I say I don't have one. When you grew up just miles from Beaver Stadium, that WAS my team and still is. Nothing like it and part of what makes fall the best time of the year in sports. A Saturday afternoon in Happy Valley watching the Nittany Lions. Call me crazy, but I'll take over an NFL game every season.