Tomorrow commences one of my favorite times of the year. And it is time of the year that I have been looking forward to for quite some time. I get all giggly and happy when I think about it. I get funny feelings in weird areas of my body. Like the soles of my feet and I’m not entirely sure why. I feel the urges to run amuck in the streets and scream my happiness but I refrain because I don’t want unmarked police cars to be parked on my block that are surveying my house.

That time of the year? October. Because October means Halloween. And Halloween means fun.

I’m trying to figure out a way to properly salute this time of the year. I’ve already done a series of posts on my favorite or unknown Halloween movies. Which means that idea is kind of kaput unless I can find some more horror movies that you need to know about.

I could salute Halloween costumes. But I may have done that as well. Or I could figure out something fresh on that topic.

I could talk about my favorite types of Halloween candy and then those types of candy that you dread to get.

I could talk about how October means the start of fall and the likelihood of snowfall increasing by the day.

I could do all of those or something else.

Regardless, I will come up with something each week or maybe even more as a tribute to this month once it starts tomorrow.

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So just as a little bit of a rant for today while I ponder whatever else I will be going on about, let us take a look at something that has been bothering me.

Tim Tebow’s concussion.

You would swear by the way that ESPN is covering every detail about this that the President had been shot. With reporters hanging around the campus of the Florida Gators every day and giving us minute by minute updates on his cranial region, you would also think that if Tim Tebow can’t play the entire world would end. And that would be putting a premature end to the world because as we all know that the world will be ending on December 21st, 2012. Because Roland Emmerich has a movie that says so.

This is piece of evidence number 1830905 of why I no longer consider ESPN to be credible source of anything dealing with sports.

We get all of these updates about a kid who took a clean hit and got knocked out just because he is a media darling and everybody is supposed to love him.

What we aren’t getting very much of, outside of the obligatory blurb on the bottom line of their television programs or a quick mention during SportsCenter or their radio programs, is the story about Stefan Johnson.

In case you haven’t heard, Stefan Johnson had a rather horrific accident while lifting weights the other day. The bar slipped from his hands while he lifting and the bar came crashing down on his larynx and throat region and he needed emergency surgery to survive.

Let me state that again…the bar…came crashing down on his throat…loaded down with a ton of weight…and he required seven hours of surgery to even stay alive.

Because of the quick reactions of his spotter and other personnel and due to the level of muscle that he had in his neck, chest and back, he was able to get to the hospital and have the chance to live.

But because he hasn’t won a Heisman Trophy or been in the limelight very often we hear very little about his accident.

The kid is looking to make a full recovery and maybe even get the chance to continue his football career but I have been a little taken aback by the way ESPN has covered this and taken so much time talking about Tim Tebow.

Yes, Tim Tebow suffered a concussion and blacked out and tossed his lunch after the hit but I hate to break it to ESPN…concussions happen all the time in football. It happens at every level of football. When you have sport that is predicated on large, fast and violent people running at each other, these kinds of things will happen.

So why is Tim Tebow’s concussion so important?

Seriously. I want to know. I need to know. I am very confused why this is such an important event that all of us should be getting hourly updates on.

And it also makes me question if it had been anybody else, would we be getting this much coverage over the injury?

Had Zac Lee of the Huskers been sick all week and then suffered a violent hit during the second half of the blowout game against Louisiana Lafayette would ESPN be so concerned about him?

I highly doubt it.

Just another example of how The World Wide Leader in sports is really not the leader in sports. They are the leaders of what they want you to care about.

I hate ESPN.

End of rant.

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Get yourselves all sorts of jacked about the month that is coming up. Get out your pumpkins and ghosts that hang from the trees. Get out your noise makers that produce scary noises and put on your favorite Halloween costume. If you are a woman, I would suggest the French Maid or S & M Dominatrix outfit.

This is Pete…

Over and out.