Sophie Cunningham's cowboy hat message has fans talking, Holly Rowe's WNBA Finals plan & Is Texas' field gray?

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Well, we're here, folks. The final week of October. It's an exciting time, right? Halloween in five days. The always enjoyable "Sports Equinox" tonight with all four major sports in action at the same time. Five if you want to count

That's up to you, though.

It's a fun time to be alive right now. That's my point. October is the best month of the year, and this is our final push until things get really hectic. I'd urge everyone to enjoy this week.

Everything shifts gears in seven days. We've got an election next Tuesday. Yuck. That'll be miserable.

More importantly (to me, at least), this is the final week until the holidays begin. And by that, I mean at midnight Saturday, everything shifts to Christmas. The commercials. The music. The department stores. It'll happen in the blink of an eye. You're gonna go to bed Saturday dreaming of Michael Myers, and wake up to insufferable Mariah Carey jamming her song down our throats.

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And there is NOTHING we can do to stop it. Nothing.

So enjoy this week. I surely will.

Let's roll.

Welcome to a Monday Nightcaps — the one where Sophie Cunningham's cowboy hat at yesterday's F1 race fired up all the PATRIOTS across this great country.

Sophie never misses.

What else? I've got ESPN's Holly Rowe with an incredible idea for the WNBA Finals, I've got a legit question about Texas' field color on TV, and was Dan Campbell's decision to go for it on fourth down yesterday as insane as everyone thinks?

I don't think so, and Dan's explanation after the game might sway you, too.

It's a thinker!

OK, grab you a pumpkin for National Pumpkin Day, and settle in for a Monday 'Cap!

We still haven't gotten our pumpkins yet down here, but that'll be coming in the next few days. We can't just carve pumpkins and let them sit on our porch all month in Florida. They'd be rotten before breakfast on Day 3.

As for my earlier rant on the upcoming holiday season ...

Don't get me wrong, I love the holidays. I love Christmas (although Christmas Eve is the better holiday). I love the whole season. I just think it starts way to soon after Halloween.

The radio stations all play Christmas music on Nov. 1. That's insane. Every single commercial has Santa in it all of a sudden. We go from Pumpkin Spice to Peppermint Mocha at every single coffee shop in America.

There needs to be a two-week buffer, in my opinion. We wait all year for "fall," and then we're so quick to stuff it all back in the attic on Nov. 1 and jump right into winter.

And don't even get me started on the disrespect towards Thanksgiving. That's a battle I've been fighting for years now.

Anyway, the holiday season is always welcome here ... I just think it doesn't need to start on Nov. 1.

Now, let's get this week started by welcoming Sophie Cunningham back to class! No need to have a two-week buffer for Sophie!

"Yee MF Haw!" What a hat. What a message to send to the libs who absolutely lost their MINDS yesterday because big, bad Sophie Cunningham waved the flag at the F1 race in Austin.

And yes, they completely lost their minds. Shocking, I know. Es