Each and every day I walk down to my office on the 2nd floor of NRG Stadium, I pass a countdown clock that ticks down to the beginning of training camp. I’ve seen that clock every day since they flipped it over from “countdown to the draft” to “countdown to training camp”. Double zeroes seemed so far off in the distance that I couldn’t really get excited, it seemed.
Then, I walked by it today and it read “one day, 15 hours and some amount of minutes and seconds.” I got excited. Okay, okay, my excitement has been ramping up each and every day but just seeing “one day” left before Coach O’Brien and the players take the practice field put a little giddy up in my step.