Football training camp is drudgery under a pitiless summer sun. It’s numbing repetition. Baseball’s spring training is synonymous with refreshing breezes. Football with a perpetual bead of sweat on the end of your nose.
I hear some of the players aren’t too fond of it, either.
Jimmy Garoppolo can’t wait.
The San Francisco 49ers quarterback, coming back from a left ACL tear suffered in the third game of last season, checked in with the local media on Tuesday. He talked like a guy who will set multiple wake-up calls for the first day of practice, so enthused he is to be back.