With a very famous sports day upcoming in Super Bowl Sunday, I'd like to do a couple top 5s involving sports days, starting with my personal favorite and maybe including some that are overrated and some that are underrated.  

5.) Sunday at the Master's- Ok, this really only works if you're a golf fan I understand that.  But I'm not even that much o####olf fan but I love watching the final few holes of the Master's on Sunday.  Obviously it's much more fun to watch if it's close and Tiger isn't running away with it, but even without the drama it brings the Master's tradition, sparks the opening of golf, and ends in the famous green jacket celebration.  It's one of the only times I'll watch golf all year and that is why I added it to the list.

4.) Super Bowl Sunday-  While this may find a spot as well in my top 5 most overrated days in sports, it's hard to argue what a great day Super Bowl Sunday is.  All sports fans have a house to go to and can play squares and make bets and even if it's a bad game you can always enjoy the commercials.  Super Bowl Sunday lands a spot here mainly becuase of it's history and entertainment aspect to it.  Also, if your team is in the game even better because there's about as much pre game as you can get that morning and afternoon.

3.) New Years' Day (excluding this year)- My favorite memories from when I was younger is waking up on New Years' Day and finding mulitple bowl games to watch.  College Football is such an exhilirating sport and the pagentry and tradition involved with the New Years' Day bowl games makes it that much more fun to watch.  Once you get to around 1 or 2 o'clock there's already 4 games on at once, all with something up for grabs.  And if some games are blowouts there are always others on other channels making it one of the great days of channel surfing as well.  I admit it has lost some of its lure with the BCS spreading out its games but New Years' Day bowl games still find a way to #3.

2.) Thursday's First round NCAA tournament games- Okay, so you have your 50 brackets filled out, highlighters ready, pools entered, and you've been waiting since Selection Sunday for this moment.  Starting at 11:00 you;ll have 16 games of thrilling March Madness to watch on CBS.  As a student I'll go from class to class trying to hide my radio or trying to find a way to get to a computer to watch the gamecast.  It's the start of the most exciting playoffs in all of sports and 16 games is a great way to do it.

1.) Baseball's Opening Day-  While this has also lost some luster due to a random game in Japan or a Sunday nighter before all the games, it finds itself at #1 because it marks the beginning of our National Pastime.  We've lasted through offseason trades, pitchers and catchers reporting, and spring training all leading up to Opening Day where usually almost every team has a game throughout the day into the evening.  It's the beginning of spring and then summer and the start of the 162 game marathon the baseball fans live for.  It's historic and exciting and always worth the wait.

This list is clearly biased due to my own personal interests in specific sports, but some are hard to argue with.   Willing to hear many other ideas on other great sports days.

Just missing the list: Final 4, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, Olympics Opening ceremonies,