About This Site

About This Site

I originally created this program as one of many countdown timers that lead to various events like, Christmas, Halloween, or next year.  Unlike all those others, this one is actually important!  Because, sports fans really want to know when their favorite team is going to be playing again.  It's tremendously important!

The original version of this entire site is the Countdown to Election Day.

The story about why I did this version goes like this...  On the Thursday of the opening day of the Eagles season, it happened that I had to look up what time the game was.  It would have been really convenient to have a site that could tell me that.  For all games of the season,  At the time my intention was just to duplicate the widget and run that thing on a few sites for easy reference.  When I sat down that morning to do the work, it occurred to me that simply duplicating the widget wouldn't really work without the entire underlying architecture that makes it all function.

In short, I couldn't just make the widget.  I needed to duplicate this entire project.  And so I did.  As of the time I'm writing this, I've been chugging away at making this its own site.  I got the database, the pages, and the basic functionality working pretty quickly.  The past 2 days since have been making the site complete.  Make it its own thing.

Anyway, the way this thing works is, I created a database where I hold all the games for the season.  I wrote a simple API that checks the current date/time and pulls the record for the next upcoming game, and that is the data for the timer.  The next day after each game, the timer will be counting to the next game.

The really cool thing about this is that the program is easily scalable.  I could add in every team in the NFL and let people choose which team the timer will follow.  The only thing stopping me from doing that is the sheer amount of time it would take to assemble all those graphics and put in all that data.  There are 32 teams in the NFL!  I just don't have that kind of time.

If someone contracts me one day and says, "We'd like to see all 32 teams, here is a stack of hundreds.", then I would be happy to take the time to do it.  Until that happens, I hope you like the Eagles.  Because that's all this does.  I'm an Eagles fan, and I wrote this utility for myself.  If you happen to be a person that has a spare stack of hundreds you'd like to get rid of, contact me.  Because I really would love to have all 32 teams here.  That would make this project really complete.