JUDD: Where does all of the time (and football) go? - The Pioneer

High school football season is always such a strange one when you’re a sports reporter at a local newspaper.

No matter what time of year it is, it always feels like next season is just around the corner, even if the final down of the final game of the season was played 12 hours ago.

Each year in mid-to-late summer when minicamps begin for teams across Mecosta and Osceola counties, the season just seems like such a journey.

I mean, think about it: it’s kind of difficult to ponder the upcoming autumn and the cold Friday nights on the football field when you’re in late-July.

For me, at least, it is usually pretty difficult to think that far down the road, even if it is my literal job.

In the middle of all of the summer event coverage, it always feels like there is almost an infinite amount of time before the weather changes and the first ball is kicked off.

You’d think I would learn by now that this is pretty much never the case and that everything I cover goes by faster than I can ever anticipate.

When the schedule is released prior to each season, you see nine games in roughly the same span of time and think to yourself how much of a journey it’s going to be.

And then, all of a sudden, it’s the final few days of October and you’re going over who made the playoffs and what the first-round matchups will look like.

No matter what is happening in the world, football season speeds by at an incredible rate and always makes me wonder where all of the time went.

I go back and look at the schedules and at various games I have covered throughout the fall and see that four, five weeks have passed since then and it always catches me off guard.

There are just so many storylines and ebbs and flows to every season that it can easily pass you by, even when it’s right under your nose from the first day of minicamp.

It’s a sobering reminder of how fast time can pass you by and, even though the following season is never more than a few months away, you can’t help but feel like you want to press rewind and go back to opening night of this season.

Unfortunately, that simply is not how the space-time continuum works, and least as of yet — I’m sure Elon Musk and his associates are working that out as we speak.

It honestly only feels like a couple days ago that I was looking over every team’s schedule and predicting where they would become playoff time.

Now, all of a sudden, all of that time has come to pass and the football teams from Big Rapids, Reed City and Evart have punched tickets for November football.

My sincere congratulations go out to all three of those schools, who are all full of top-quality, young student-athletes.

Best of luck going forward — you’ve all earned this.

Joe Judd is a reporter for the Pioneer. He can be reached at Joe.Judd@pioneergroup.com.

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