The Best Months of the Year for Sports

The worst month in sports is almost over and the best months are fast approaching. Here is each month of the year ranked based on one thing and one thing only: the quality and available sports.

12. August

NFL training camp does not create the buzz it once did and the preseason is caught somewhere between bad and okay. The end of the month offers a good weekend of college football … sometimes.

11. February

The Super Bowl is the biggest sporting event in North America, but after that February is pretty blah in sports. The NBA trade deadline is fun but often unimportant. The NBA All-Star game is fine.

10. May

The middle rounds of the NBA playoffs are boring and predictable. This past season’s two conference finals lifted the month for two weeks with nail-biting action, however, that is not always the case. The NHL playoffs are exciting but most of the country is not changing their schedule for it.

9. July

Wait, July? Yes. There may not be games that make you rush to your living room, but the NBA player movement is the most important, interesting, and dramatic thing in all of sports. Phone cases with built-in chargers were made for July after refreshing Twitter so much.

8. November

A month with football is a good month. When the World Series is in November it is even better. The 11th month of the year is the ideal time to have multiple televisions in your living room with the NBA, NHL, NFL, College football, and college basketball intertwining.

7. December

December is the month for Christmas but the sports are also wonderful. On Christmas Day, the NBA showcases its projected top matchups of the season all day long. With the NFL season winding down, all four weekends features must-win games. Like them or not, there will be plenty of bowl games as well. Oh, and fantasy football money is on the line.

6. June

With the NBA offseason rumors becoming a sport of its own, June is a jam-packed month in sports. June crowns championships in both the NBA and the NHL. Not long after the storylines quickly turn to the NBA Draft and the buzz surrounding potential trades in the works. The U.S. Open is often very satisfying to both golf purist and casual fans.

5. March

There is a large portion of sports fans that consider the opening days of the NCAA Tournament the best days in sports (they are wrong, though). College basketball is synonymous with the month but it also presents many key late-season NBA and NHL games. In March, NFL Draft rumors begin to pick up steam as well. This past March, the MLB joined in on the fun with the earliest opening day ever.

4. April

March gets all the credit, but its successor is where the College Basketball season is decided. April is also where the dark horse candidate in the race for the best sports day of the year takes place — Masters Sunday. The NBA playoffs beginning finally brings us nightly meaningful games. Add that to the NFL Draft and we have 1/4th of the Mount Rushmore of sports months.

3. January

In the years that there are more major College football bowls, and they are entertaining, January has a case to be the second-best sports month of the year. The National Championship Game has become an event so thrilling that it has made the following Tuesday workday nothing more than an inconvenience. There is also three straight weekends filled with the NFL Playoffs.

2. September

After months of waiting, the NFL is finally back and College Football offers the ideal appetizer each and every Saturday. The month is only filled with several baseball games that do, indeed, matter. September has also become home to at least one big time boxing matchup to top things off.

The great month of September does suck for those who have to go back to school, college, or work, I must say.

1. October

There is no better crisis to have than being forced to switch back and forth between the MLB postseason and football. October has become such a great month for sports there is not even time to enjoy the best scenery of the year. It is not just pumpkin spice, sweatshirts, hayrides, haunted houses it is college football, pro football, playoff baseball, and the start of the NBA season.

It just feels, looks, and sounds better than the rest of the year.