Any fans here this morning lucky enough to have your favorite baseball team in a division play-off? Anyone want to predict who's going to play in the World Series? (Customize your opening interactive to your own setting. If you don't want to make this an interactive moment, you can redo in narrative form.)

For you it's still baseball season. For the rest of us, our days of summer are done and it's definitely time for football.

Football is a sport that can easily fill up every part of a fall weekend. High School games on Friday night. College games on Saturday afternoon. Pro games on Sundays. In other words, football games interfere equally with Muslim, Jewish, and Christian Sabbath days!

A grunt and grime sport, football was slow to gain a place in sports fans' hearts. The offensive line ga…